Port Macquarie-Town Beach Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3506 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Port Macquarie-Town Beach, located 7 km away (4 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 prevailing wind at Port Macquarie-Town Beach 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 Port Macquarie-Town Beach. On the other hand, 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 15% of the time (4 days each June) and blows offshore 63% of the time (19 days in an average June). During a typical June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Port Macquarie-Town Beach

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