Double Island Point - East Side Wind Stats

This image shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal November. The longest 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 deep blue. It is based on 2867 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Double Island Point - East Side, located 32 km away (20 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the most common wind at Double Island Point - East Side blows from the E. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Double Island Point - East Side. Converseley, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 4% of the time (1 days each November) and blows offshore just 19% of the time (6 days in an average November). Over an average November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Double Island Point - East Side

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