High Rock Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical February. The largest 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 3120 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to High Rock, located 32 km away (20 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 High Rock blows from the NE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at High Rock. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 February, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 0.4% of the time (0 days each February) and blows offshore just 0.7% of the time (0 days in an average February). During a typical February wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at High Rock

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