Protective/Mitigating Measures: Scheduling

• During summer the diurnal variation of the land/sea breeze may be a factor in scheduling. The typical daily regime is the onset of sea breeze by late morning with maximum onshore winds of 10 to 15 kts by mid afternoon and dropping off after sunset occurs. Levante wind speeds follow a similar diurnal pattern, however, over water strong events are likely to persist through the night.

• During winter the synoptic variations are of greater importance in scheduling. Frontal activity is quite frequent with about 40% of the days experiencing some form of unsettled weather.