36th Street Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. The largest 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 4547 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to 36th Street, located 34 km away (21 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 36th Street blows from the ENE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at 36th Street. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (light blue) about 4% of the time (1 days each November) and blows offshore just 20% of the time (2 days in an average November). In a typical November winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at 36th Street

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