Navegantes Wind Stats

This image illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. 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 2867 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Navegantes, located 19 km away (12 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 prevailing wind at Navegantes blows from the ESE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Navegantes. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 15% of the time (4 days each November) and blows offshore 19% of the time (6 days in an average November). During a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Navegantes

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