Zarautz Wind Stats

This image illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Zarautz, located 27 km away (17 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Zarautz blows from the NW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Zarautz. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 20% of the time (6 days each April) and blows offshore 41% of the time (11 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Zarautz

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