Sellicks Beach Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical July. The longest 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 3472 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Sellicks Beach, located 44 km away (27 miles). There are not enough 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 most common wind at Sellicks Beach blows from the SW. If the rose graph shows a fairly circular pattern, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Sellicks Beach. By contrast, dominant spokes illustrate favoured directions, and the more deep 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 5% of the time (2 days each July) and blows offshore 12% of the time (0 days in an average July). During a typical July wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was expected for only a single days at Sellicks Beach

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