Ondres Plage Wind Stats

This image illustrates how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical October. 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 2976 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ondres Plage, located 42 km away (26 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. No doubt some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3. According to the model, the dominant wind at Ondres Plage blows from the NW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ondres Plage. By contrast, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average October, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 21% of the time (7 days each October) and blows offshore 54% of the time (16 days in an average October). In a typical October wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Ondres Plage

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