Slade Bay/Boot Reef Wind Stats

The rose diagram shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Slade Bay/Boot Reef, located 14 km away (9 miles). There are too few 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 prevailing wind at Slade Bay/Boot Reef blows from the WSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Slade Bay/Boot Reef. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each August) and blows offshore 21% of the time (0 days in an average August). During a typical August wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Slade Bay/Boot Reef

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