Takara Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how frequently and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical August. The longest 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 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Takara, located 9 km away (6 miles). There are insufficient 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 Takara blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Takara. On the other hand, 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 August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 2.0% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 14% of the time (2 days in an average August). During a typical August winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Takara

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