Asia - Mar Azul Wind Stats

This picture illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The biggest 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 Asia - Mar Azul, located 49 km away (30 miles). There are insufficient 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 Asia - Mar Azul blows from the SSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Asia - Mar Azul. By contrast, 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 0.9% of the time (0 days each September) and blows offshore just 0.9% of the time (0 days in an average September). During a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Asia - Mar Azul

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