Blokken Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3460 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Blokken, located 11 km away (7 miles). There are not enough 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 prevailing wind at Blokken blows from the NNW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Blokken. On the other hand, 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 October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each October) and blows offshore 16% of the time (3 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Blokken

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