17th Street Boardwalk Wind Stats

The graph shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3422 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to 17th Street Boardwalk, located 33 km away (21 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 most common wind at 17th Street Boardwalk blows from the ESE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at 17th Street Boardwalk. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 6% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 22% of the time (6 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at 17th Street Boardwalk

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