Santa Clause Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal January. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3364 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Santa Clause, located 46 km away (29 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 Santa Clause blows from the WSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Santa Clause. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical January, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 20% of the time (6 days each January) and blows offshore 35% of the time (10 days in an average January). Over an average January wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Santa Clause

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