Tamarin Bay Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how commonly 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 indicates the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tamarin Bay, located 43 km away (27 miles). There are not enough 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 dominant wind at Tamarin Bay blows from the SSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tamarin Bay. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 26% of the time (8 days in an average August). Over an average August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Tamarin Bay

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