Off the Wall/Insanities Wind Stats

The figure shows 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 implies the strength, with deep blue strongest. It is based on 2880 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Off the Wall/Insanities, located 39 km away (24 miles). There are not enough 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 dominant wind at Off the Wall/Insanities blows from the NNW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Off the Wall/Insanities. By contrast, dominant spokes represent 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each April) and blows offshore just 47% of the time (14 days in an average April). In a typical April wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Off the Wall/Insanities

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