The Bombie and Boat Ramp Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to The Bombie and Boat Ramp, located 45 km away (28 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at The Bombie and Boat Ramp blows from the SW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at The Bombie and Boat Ramp. On the other hand, 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. Over an average April, 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 April) and blows offshore 30% of the time (9 days in an average April). During a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at The Bombie and Boat Ramp

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