Georgica (East Hampton) Wind Stats

This image describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal December. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3200 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Georgica (East Hampton), located 16 km away (10 miles). There are not enough 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 Georgica (East Hampton) blows from the SSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Georgica (East Hampton). On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical December, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 1.8% of the time (1 days each December) and blows offshore just 32% of the time (9 days in an average December). Over an average December winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 4 days at Georgica (East Hampton)

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