Lori Wilson Park Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal October. The biggest 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 dark blue. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Lori Wilson Park, located 21 km away (13 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 prevailing wind at Lori Wilson Park blows from the E. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Lori Wilson Park. 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. During a typical October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each October) and blows offshore 23% of the time (6 days in an average October). Over an average October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Lori Wilson Park

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