Tungku Beach or KM26 Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 2557 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2008, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tungku Beach or KM26, located 15 km away (9 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 dominant wind at Tungku Beach or KM26 blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tungku Beach or KM26. By contrast, dominant spokes show 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 58% of the time (17 days each April) and blows offshore 64% of the time (0 days in an average April). During a typical April winds exceeding >40kph (25mph) are not expected, but 0 have winds on the range 30-40 (19-25) at Tungku Beach or KM26

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