Bay Head Wind Stats

This chart shows how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal December. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3442 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Bay Head, located 8 km away (5 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 prevailing wind at Bay Head blows from the SE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Bay Head. On the other hand, 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. During a typical December, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each December) and blows offshore 46% of the time (11 days in an average December). Over an average December winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at Bay Head

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