Clogherhead Beach Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical May. 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 3158 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2008, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Clogherhead Beach, located 0 km away (0 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 Clogherhead Beach blows from the S. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Clogherhead Beach. Converseley, 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 May, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each May) and blows offshore 15% of the time (0 days in an average May). In a typical May wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Clogherhead Beach

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