St Andrews State Park Wind Stats

The figure describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal January. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3356 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to St Andrews State Park, located 28 km away (17 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 St Andrews State Park blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at St Andrews State Park. Converseley, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical January, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each January) and blows offshore 15% of the time (3 days in an average January). Over an average January winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at St Andrews State Park

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