Tenby (North Beach) Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal April. 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 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tenby (North Beach), located 24 km away (15 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 Tenby (North Beach) blows from the WSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tenby (North Beach). By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 13% of the time (4 days each April) and blows offshore 39% of the time (0 days in an average April). Over an average April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Tenby (North Beach)

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