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Ballycotton Wind Stats

Wind Stats

(% offshore)

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(any wind direction)

This chart illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical March. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3460 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ballycotton, located 38 km away (24 miles). There are not enough 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 Ballycotton blows from the SW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ballycotton. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average March, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each March) and blows offshore 43% of the time (4 days in an average March). During a typical March winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 5 days at Ballycotton

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