Patiti Point Wind Stats

The graph 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 implies the strength, with the strongest winds shown by deep blue. It is based on 3224 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Patiti Point, located 21 km away (13 miles). There are too few 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 dominant wind at Patiti Point blows from the ESE. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Patiti Point. On the other hand, 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 July, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 17% of the time (5 days each July) and blows offshore 39% of the time (12 days in an average July). During a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Patiti Point

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