South Port Adelaide Wind Stats

This picture describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal August. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests 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 South Port Adelaide, located 57 km away (35 miles). There are insufficient 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 South Port Adelaide blows from the WSW. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at South Port Adelaide. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more dark blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. During a typical August, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 3% of the time (1 days each August) and blows offshore just 4% of the time (0 days in an average August). Over an average August winds stronger than >40kph (25mph) are expected on 2 days at South Port Adelaide

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