Sands Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3346 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Sands, located 41 km away (25 miles). There are insufficient 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 Sands blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Sands. Converseley, 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 November, 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 November) and blows offshore 44% of the time (11 days in an average November). During a typical November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Sands

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