South End Wind Stats

The figure shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3356 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to South End, located 25 km away (16 miles). There are not enough 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 South End blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at South End. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep 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 9% of the time (3 days each April) and blows offshore 24% of the time (5 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at South End

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