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Keith (Southend)
May 20, 2025, 12:56:05 PMMay 20
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For me here at Southend-on-Sea, so far this may the wind has been:
North: 4days
NE: 10 days
East: 6 days
No wonder i's dry.
Keith (Southend)
Nick Gardner
May 20, 2025, 2:09:26 PMMay 20
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And here are my wind stats (1st - 20th May 2025). A remarkable amount of calm and a very low amount of sea breezes (from the south). A Return of the Westerlies at the weekend; a bit earlier than average.
N: 5.22 Days 26%
NE: 1.72 Days 9%
E: 2.32 Days 12%
SE: 1.05 Days 5%
S: 1.98 Days 10%
SW: 1.55 Days 8%
W: 0.15 Days 1%
NW: 1.24 Days 6%
Calm: 15.78 Days 79%
Mean Wind: 1.9 mph
Max Gust: 21 mph 5th
NE: 1.72 Days 9%
E: 2.32 Days 12%
SE: 1.05 Days 5%
S: 1.98 Days 10%
SW: 1.55 Days 8%
W: 0.15 Days 1%
NW: 1.24 Days 6%
Calm: 15.78 Days 79%
Mean Wind: 1.9 mph
Max Gust: 21 mph 5th
5.4 mm of rain so far this month
Otter Valley, Devon.
Freddie
May 20, 2025, 2:30:51 PMMay 20
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Similar here in Shropshire. These occurrences are for 0900 only, but there's not much variation through the day - perhaps more calms in the early hours:
N: 6; NE: 8; E: 5; SE: 0; S: 0; SW: 0; W: 0; NW: 1; Calm: 0
Graham Easterling
May 20, 2025, 3:32:35 PMMay 20
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Bit more easterly here in Penzance = again @ 09:00
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N 1 NE 2 E 8 SE 8 (sea front direction) S 0 SW 1 W 0 NW 0 CALM 0
One affect of this spring is for sand to accumulate in different spots to normal. In some places, such as NW facing Sennen, the sand is exceptionally low. The sand normally accumulates at the SW (NW facing) end of the beach in a SW wind. This is handy as it's right next to the beach car park. This is because in a SW wind, the wind blown surfact water moves NE past Cowloe (the rocks in the image below) and there is a SW flowing counter current along the beach, which also causes sand to accumulate against the east facing side of the harbour wall.
This is not happening and there's a great lack of sand and the normally busy end of the beach, it's all up at Gwenver (the next beach, joined to Sennen at low tide). We need a spell of SW winds with a decent swell to bring it back.to bring it back. That area of rocks is normally covered.
Normal situation taken from below the beach restaurant next to the car park in the above picture.
Meanwhile, over at Praa Sands I've never seen anything like as much sand.
Graham
Penzance
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