Ouano Lefts Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The biggest 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 Ouano Lefts, located 27 km away (17 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 dominant wind at Ouano Lefts blows from the SSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ouano Lefts. 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each June) and blows offshore 69% of the time (21 days in an average June). During a typical June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Ouano Lefts

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