Piedra del Lobo Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3266 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Piedra del Lobo, located 63 km away (39 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Piedra del Lobo blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Piedra del Lobo. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each June) and blows offshore 9% of the time (3 days in an average June). During a typical June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Piedra del Lobo

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