Tessellated Pavements Wind Stats

The figure illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The longest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 1200 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tessellated Pavements, located 6 km away (4 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 Tessellated Pavements blows from the S. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tessellated Pavements. 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. During a typical November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 8% of the time (2 days each November) and blows offshore 22% 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 Tessellated Pavements

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