Tahunanui Beach Wind Stats

The graph illustrates 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 deep blue strongest. It is based on 3042 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2008, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tahunanui Beach, located 38 km away (24 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 Tahunanui Beach blows from the NNW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tahunanui Beach. By contrast, 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 11% of the time (3 days each April) and blows offshore 22% of the time (0 days in an average April). During a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Tahunanui Beach

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