St Jean de Luz - La Bougie Wind Stats

The rose diagram illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal May. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3440 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to St Jean de Luz - La Bougie, located 28 km away (17 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at St Jean de Luz - La Bougie blows from the NW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at St Jean de Luz - La Bougie. Converseley, 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 May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 12% of the time (4 days each May) and blows offshore 18% of the time (0 days in an average May). Over an average May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at St Jean de Luz - La Bougie

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