Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek, located 12 km away (7 miles). There are not enough 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 prevailing wind at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek blows from the W. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek. On the other hand, 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. During a typical November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 19% of the time (6 days each November) and blows offshore 37% of the time (11 days in an average November). Over an average November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek

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