Southernmost Wave Bouy Released

[Tornado Tim]

MetOcean, The company I work for has just released the southernmost WaveBouy in the world, to which the data is available to the public for free.
Will be great to see this data especially in Winter when the Southern Ocean starts ramping up.

http://www.metocean.co.nz/wave-buoy

[Manukau heads obs]

hey way cool

[kiwisk8er]

Awesome

[tunster]

MetOcean, The company I work for has just released the southernmost WaveBouy in the world, to which the data is available to the public for free.
Will be great to see this data especially in Winter when the Southern Ocean starts ramping up.

http://www.metocean.co.nz/wave-buoy

Is it correct that the buoy will only be there for 6 months?
It would be really good if it lasted through Spring as well. The most interesting swell location would be west of the actual site, so that SW swells incident on NZ would be measured upstream. In it's current location, it's most relevant to very southerly swells, but any extra observations are of great interest down there.

Also the data is not visible to me anyway. I have tried the three main browsers and the connection always times out.
(Chrome: "the connection was reset" grey box with sad face)
(IE: "this page can't be displayed" inside the frame where the data should be)
(Firefox: "secure connection failed")

Will the data be available in MOV?

[Flutterbye]

I'm using Chrome and it works well.

[Manukau heads obs]

it loads OK here too
maybe MetService have some block on metocean web site, lol

re location, it looks like its put there because its not as deep, being still attached to new found NZ continent

[tunster]

it loads OK here too
maybe MetService have some block on metocean web site, lol

re location, it looks like its put there because its not as deep, being still attached to new found NZ continent

Yeah I assumed it was something external because every browser was failing, but it is starting to look like something to do with this PC! Alas.

Something else I was wondering about: the ice edge in winter extends quite a long way northwards, so I wonder if there would be a limited fetch in straight southerlies at the buoy site come August time? I can't remember to what latitude the ice edge extends.....

[Tornado Tim]

The wave bouy has just recorded a 15.8 meter wave, 9.4 meter significant wave height and its still alive!

The southern ocean certainly hasnt died down over the summer period!

[Manukau heads obs]

and that swell is up this way today, 2m