Brinlack Point (Bloody Foreland) Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3506 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Brinlack Point (Bloody Foreland), located 42 km away (26 miles). There are too few recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Brinlack Point (Bloody Foreland) blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Brinlack Point (Bloody Foreland). On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of 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 (light blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each June) and blows offshore 26% of the time (8 days in an average June). Over an average June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Brinlack Point (Bloody Foreland)

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