120th Street Wind Stats

This chart shows how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the darkest shade of blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to 120th Street, located 8 km away (5 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 120th Street blows from the ESE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at 120th Street. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark 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 13% of the time (4 days each September) and blows offshore 33% of the time (9 days in an average September). In a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at 120th Street

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