Playa Blanca - Lota Wind Stats

This chart shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa Blanca - Lota, located 89 km away (55 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 prevailing wind at Playa Blanca - Lota blows from the WSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa Blanca - Lota. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 9% of the time (3 days each September) and blows offshore 66% of the time (20 days in an average September). In a typical September winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 4 days at Playa Blanca - Lota

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