El Brusco Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how frequently 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 dark blue strongest. It is based on 2786 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to El Brusco, located 4 km away (2 miles). There are too few 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 most common wind at El Brusco 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 El Brusco. Converseley, dominant spokes show 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 27% of the time (8 days each June) and blows offshore 34% of the time (2 days in an average June). In a typical June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at El Brusco

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