St Jean de Doigt Wind Stats

This chart illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal October. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to St Jean de Doigt, located 37 km away (23 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 prevailing wind at St Jean de Doigt blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at St Jean de Doigt. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each October) and blows offshore 30% of the time (6 days in an average October). Over an average October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 4 days at St Jean de Doigt

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