Stunning Winds here in Dunedin

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Stunning Winds here in Dunedin

Unread post by Compie »

Hey all,

Not sure who else is getting these, but here on the Otago Peninsula we are getting some spectacluar winds, not to mention some very nice small water spouts.

Here's port otago wind readings FYI.

http://www.portotago.co.nz/12/3.html

Couple this with high tide and we have a very wet portobello Road.

Now - where is the rest of our washing line, better visit the neighbour later.
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We abandoned our walk around MacAndrew bay as it was just to hazardous.
Flying branches, bits of wood etc.
Where on the Peninsula are you Compie ?
Its been a very long time since I have seen such extreme winds here.
Berkshire North of Te Anau west of Hokitika.
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Company Bay.

Amazing microclimate here. 500m back towards town and there can be little or no wind.

Our special little spot gets the wind funneled direct from the south west. Dear old McAndrew bay can often be dead still.

Cool, hail has just started here.
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Watched an Otago storm blow through North Harbour :roll: stadium this afternoon.
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spwill wrote:Watched an Otago storm blow through North Harbour :roll: stadium this afternoon.
:lol: :lol:
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Hi Compie
We are almost neighbours.
Cheers
Berkshire North of Te Anau west of Hokitika.
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Unread post by GSVNoFixedAbode »

And on the other side of Otago harbour, we also got the odd zepher:
Maximum Wind (gust) 65.5 km/h, 347° at 18:23 on 08 October (Thanks to Phil's site). :shock:
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I haven't got a weather station (can't afford a decent one to connect to my Mac, unless anyone knows of a good reasonbly priced one).

And I'd dearly love to find my old anemometer that I bought years ago from Geog dept at Canty.

But they winds were great.
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I've just purchased a handheld anenometer and they are not badly priced on Trade Me from between $60-195 and quite accurate too

In saying that,this one measures only to 150 kilometres per hour!
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I checked my weather station and yesterday afternoon at 4.45 pm it claimed there was a wind speed of 156.7 km/hour. We are based in Musselburgh/Tainui. I don't know whether or not to believe it.
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GSVNoFixedAbode wrote:And on the other side of Otago harbour, we also got the odd zepher:
Maximum Wind (gust) 65.5 km/h, 347° at 18:23 on 08 October (Thanks to Phil's site). :shock:
It's annoying that the WM-918 only samples every two seconds. I reckon I miss a lot more. 65kph is strong but I would swear it was stronger than that.
kiwisk8er wrote:I checked my weather station and yesterday afternoon at 4.45 pm it claimed there was a wind speed of 156.7 km/hour. We are based in Musselburgh/Tainui. I don't know whether or not to believe it.
Don't believe it
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Unread post by Manukau heads obs »

i think its only every 5 seconds for windspeed for the wm918?
what weather station type kiwisk8er?
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