Bruny Island - Neck Bay Wind Stats

This image shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 2838 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Bruny Island - Neck Bay, located 28 km away (17 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the prevailing wind at Bruny Island - Neck Bay blows from the SSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Bruny Island - Neck Bay. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 55% of the time (17 days in an average May). During a typical May winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 6 days at Bruny Island - Neck Bay

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