Phillips Pump House Wind Stats

The graph describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3119 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Phillips Pump House, located 28 km away (17 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 Phillips Pump House blows from the SE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Phillips Pump House. 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. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each April) and blows offshore 37% of the time (10 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Phillips Pump House

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