Les Crevettes Ste Barbe Wind Stats

The graph shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. 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 3582 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Les Crevettes Ste Barbe, located 28 km away (17 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 Les Crevettes Ste Barbe 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 Les Crevettes Ste Barbe. 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. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 18% of the time (5 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Les Crevettes Ste Barbe

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