North Stradbroke - Pt Lookout Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3590 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to North Stradbroke - Pt Lookout, located 9 km away (6 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at North Stradbroke - Pt Lookout blows from the E. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at North Stradbroke - Pt Lookout. By contrast, dominant spokes represent 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 August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each August) and blows offshore 39% of the time (5 days in an average August). In a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at North Stradbroke - Pt Lookout

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