Abalone Cove Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical April. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 3360 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Abalone Cove, located 29 km away (18 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 most common wind at Abalone Cove blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Abalone Cove. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate 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 April, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 29% of the time (9 days each April) and blows offshore 40% of the time (1 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Abalone Cove

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