Stent Road Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Stent Road, located 31 km away (19 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Stent Road blows from the WSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Stent Road. By contrast, 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. Over an average November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each November) and blows offshore 18% of the time (5 days in an average November). During a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Stent Road

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