Karekare Wind Stats

The graph illustrates how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical January. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by the darkest shade of blue. It is based on 3364 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Karekare, located 2 km away (1 miles). There are insufficient 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 most common wind at Karekare blows from the WSW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Karekare. On the other hand, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average January, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 15% of the time (5 days each January) and blows offshore 33% of the time (10 days in an average January). In a typical January wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Karekare

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