Patrick Air Force Base Wind Stats

This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2867 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Patrick Air Force Base, located 31 km away (19 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 dominant wind at Patrick Air Force Base blows from the ENE. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Patrick Air Force Base. By contrast, 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 November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each November) and blows offshore 17% of the time (4 days in an average November). Over an average November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Patrick Air Force Base

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