Tullagh Bay Wind Stats

The rose diagram describes how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions over a normal June. The biggest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with deep blue showing the strongest winds. It is based on 3384 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Tullagh Bay, located 24 km away (15 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 most common wind at Tullagh Bay blows from the NNW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Tullagh Bay. 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. During a typical June, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 0.8% of the time (0 days each June) and blows offshore just 1.5% of the time (0 days in an average June). Over an average June wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was predicted for only a single days at Tullagh Bay

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