Pacific City-Gas Chambers Wind Stats

This image shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal October. 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 the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Pacific City-Gas Chambers, located 53 km away (33 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 prevailing wind at Pacific City-Gas Chambers blows from the W. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Pacific City-Gas Chambers. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep 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 11% of the time (3 days each October) and blows offshore 26% of the time (8 days in an average October). Over an average October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Pacific City-Gas Chambers

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