Long Beach (Tofino Airport) Wind Stats

The graph describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Long Beach (Tofino Airport), located 19 km away (12 miles). There are insufficient 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 Long Beach (Tofino Airport) blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Long Beach (Tofino Airport). 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 September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 23% of the time (7 days each September) and blows offshore 31% of the time (9 days in an average September). In a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Long Beach (Tofino Airport)

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