Flinders Island - Trousers Point Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal July. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Flinders Island - Trousers Point, located 55 km away (34 miles). There are insufficient 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 most common wind at Flinders Island - Trousers Point blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Flinders Island - Trousers Point. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each July) and blows offshore just 6% of the time (0 days in an average July). Over an average July winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 6 days at Flinders Island - Trousers Point

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