Playa de Castro Wind Stats

The graph shows 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 3471 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Playa de Castro, located 33 km away (21 miles). There are insufficient 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 most common wind at Playa de Castro blows from the WNW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Playa de Castro. On the other hand, dominant spokes show 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 (the lightest shade of blue) about 10% of the time (3 days each October) and blows offshore 39% of the time (12 days in an average October). In a typical October winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 3 days at Playa de Castro

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