Playa de Baldayo - La Laguna Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa de Baldayo - La Laguna, located 26 km away (16 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Playa de Baldayo - La Laguna blows from the NW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa de Baldayo - La Laguna. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark 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 11% of the time (3 days each April) and blows offshore 30% of the time (9 days in an average April). In a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Playa de Baldayo - La Laguna

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