Les Sables Blancs Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes 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 indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Les Sables Blancs, located 36 km away (22 miles). There are too few 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 Sables Blancs blows from the WNW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Les Sables Blancs. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (light blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each November) and blows offshore just 22% of the time (6 days in an average November). Over an average November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 7 days at Les Sables Blancs

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