Ngataki Beach and Paxton Point Wind Stats

This picture describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical November. 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 2867 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ngataki Beach and Paxton Point, located 25 km away (16 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 Ngataki Beach and Paxton Point blows from the ENE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ngataki Beach and Paxton Point. Converseley, dominant spokes show favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average November, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 0.2% of the time (0 days each November) and blows offshore just 1.5% of the time (0 days in an average November). In a typical November wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Ngataki Beach and Paxton Point

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