Ilha Deserta Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical February. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3120 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ilha Deserta, located 12 km away (7 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 most common wind at Ilha Deserta blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ilha Deserta. Converseley, 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 February, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 0% of the time (0 days each February) and blows offshore just 0.3% of the time (0 days in an average February). In a typical February wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Ilha Deserta

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