Patong Beach Wind Stats

The graph shows how often 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 indicates the strength, with dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3038 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Patong Beach, located 34 km away (21 miles). There are not enough 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 Patong Beach blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Patong Beach. Converseley, dominant spokes represent 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 10% of the time (3 days each September) and blows offshore 12% of the time (0 days in an average September). During a typical September wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Patong Beach

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