Terceira - Sao Mateus da Calherta Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how often 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 implies the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Terceira - Sao Mateus da Calherta, located 26 km away (16 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Terceira - Sao Mateus da Calherta blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Terceira - Sao Mateus da Calherta. 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 November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 0.2% of the time (0 days each November) and blows offshore just 0.9% of the time (0 days in an average November). Over an average November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Terceira - Sao Mateus da Calherta

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