San Jorge - Punta da Caldeira Wind Stats

The graph describes 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 indicates the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to San Jorge - Punta da Caldeira, located 16 km away (10 miles). There are not enough 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 dominant wind at San Jorge - Punta da Caldeira blows from the NNW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at San Jorge - Punta da Caldeira. By contrast, 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 36% of the time (11 days in an average May). During a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at San Jorge - Punta da Caldeira

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