Long Beach (Tofino Airport) Wind Stats

This image illustrates how commonly 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 suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by dark blue. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Long Beach (Tofino Airport), located 19 km away (12 miles). There are too few 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 prevailing wind at Long Beach (Tofino Airport) blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Long Beach (Tofino Airport). On the other hand, 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. Over an average April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 17% of the time (5 days each April) and blows offshore 27% of the time (8 days in an average April). During a typical April winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Long Beach (Tofino Airport)

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