Tahai Wind Stats

This chart shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. 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 Tahai, located 17 km away (11 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 most common wind at Tahai blows from the WNW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tahai. 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. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 0.1% of the time (0 days each August) and blows offshore just 0.2% of the time (0 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Tahai

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