Little Joes/Between the Jetties Wind Stats

This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 3720 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Little Joes/Between the Jetties, located 11 km away (7 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 dominant wind at Little Joes/Between the Jetties blows from the W. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Little Joes/Between the Jetties. Converseley, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 7% of the time (2 days each July) and blows offshore 11% of the time (3 days in an average July). During a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Little Joes/Between the Jetties

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