Needles Wind Stats

This chart describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal October. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with dark blue strongest. It is based on 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Needles, located 13 km away (8 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 prevailing wind at Needles blows from the W. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Needles. On the other hand, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (pale blue) about 19% of the time (6 days each October) and blows offshore 41% of the time (13 days in an average October). Over an average October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Needles

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