Walton-On-The-Naze Wind Stats

The figure 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 indicates the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3347 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Walton-On-The-Naze, located 21 km away (13 miles). There are too few 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 dominant wind at Walton-On-The-Naze blows from the N. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Walton-On-The-Naze. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 1.5% of the time (0 days each November) and blows offshore just 21% of the time (1 days in an average November). Over an average November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Walton-On-The-Naze

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