Playa de San Pedro Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical June. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3506 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa de San Pedro, located 51 km away (32 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 dominant wind at Playa de San Pedro blows from the NW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa de San Pedro. 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 June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 16% of the time (5 days each June) and blows offshore 22% of the time (4 days in an average June). In a typical June winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Playa de San Pedro

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