South Ponte Vedra Beach Wind Stats

The graph shows how commonly 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 suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3422 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to South Ponte Vedra Beach, located 31 km away (19 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 dominant wind at South Ponte Vedra Beach blows from the E. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at South Ponte Vedra Beach. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 28% of the time (8 days in an average May). During a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at South Ponte Vedra Beach

read more