El Claron Wind Stats

This chart 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 dark blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to El Claron, located 24 km away (15 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 El Claron blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at El Claron. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep 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 22% of the time (7 days each April) and blows offshore 23% of the time (7 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at El Claron

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