Cloudbreak Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how commonly 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 the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Cloudbreak, located 23 km away (14 miles). There are insufficient 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 Cloudbreak blows from the SSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Cloudbreak. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (light blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 53% of the time (17 days in an average August). During a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Cloudbreak

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