Perelle Bay Wind Stats

The graph describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3265 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Perelle Bay, located 11 km away (7 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 Perelle Bay blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Perelle Bay. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each June) and blows offshore 18% of the time (0 days in an average June). In a typical June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Perelle Bay

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