Frenchmans Reef Wind Stats

This image shows 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 suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3223 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Frenchmans Reef, located 55 km away (34 miles). There are insufficient 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 dominant wind at Frenchmans Reef blows from the SSE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Frenchmans Reef. Converseley, dominant spokes show 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 4% of the time (1 days each October) and blows offshore just 14% of the time (4 days in an average October). In a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Frenchmans Reef

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