Lawrencetown Left Point Wind Stats

This image illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Lawrencetown Left Point, located 27 km away (17 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 dominant wind at Lawrencetown Left Point blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Lawrencetown Left Point. 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 September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each September) and blows offshore 29% of the time (8 days in an average September). In a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Lawrencetown Left Point

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