Artificial reef Wind Stats

This image describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3506 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Artificial reef, located 23 km away (14 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 Artificial reef blows from the WNW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Artificial reef. By contrast, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 0% of the time (0 days each June) and blows offshore just 0% of the time (0 days in an average June). Over an average June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Artificial reef

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