Conil de la Frontera Wind Stats

The figure shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Conil de la Frontera, located 33 km away (21 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 dominant wind at Conil de la Frontera blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Conil de la Frontera. On the other hand, 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. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each April) and blows offshore just 11% of the time (1 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Conil de la Frontera

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