Ozaki Wind Stats

The figure describes how commonly 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 suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ozaki, located 31 km away (19 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 most common wind at Ozaki blows from the SSE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ozaki. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 13% of the time (4 days each September) and blows offshore 17% of the time (5 days in an average September). In a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Ozaki

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