Zoe 8 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Hi all, I'm writing a story about the statistical likelihood of a SE/SWer at Labour Weekend for the Coastal and wonder if anybody could please point me in the direction of good data? Zoe Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Bob McDavitt ?? or http://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/ need to subscribe, have not used it myself but someone recommended it awhile ago Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBK-__f ... re=related This one has lots of NZ weather links http://search.nzs.com/nz/Historical%20Weather%20Data http://www.wunderground.com/ http://www.nzweather.net/forum/forum/38 ... tatistics/ http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subje ... ogmeta.htm http://www.metservice.com/about/annual-reports Link to post Share on other sites
khayyam 77 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 you can get month-by-month data from windfinder... http://www.windfinder.com/windstats/win ... kland.htm# Link to post Share on other sites
Murky 1 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Wouldn't it be great - two years in a row, this time bending for the last leg in from the Brett. Will be interesting to see what comes up, certainly seem to recall a lot more beats in the very early years and since then - a couple of years ago being the notable exception - a bag ride of some description seems to have been on offer most of the time. To get back to the topic, with Predictwind having been a sponsor of the CC in the past, does that mean there would be some expectation of having first crack at the answer for this article or have you already checked out that option? Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Interesting. Who's done a few of those races and can remember what the past ones were like?? I used to be part of a big Youth event in Wellington and would travel over the Friday of every Queens Birthday Weekend. I did it for years and every year we would have a big storm and more often than not, Ferry's would have to stop sailing at some point over that weekend. One year we were the last Ferry to sail for three days and I have never seen Sea's like that again. Nor the screaming noise of the wind, which was just something else. But anyway, it was almost clockwork. As clockwork as the weather can be anyway. Every QB it was nasty. I can only remember one year it wasn't, which was recent, like maybe one or two years back, that we didn't have something really nasty. This last QB, it was nasty on the Monday. So even then, it was only a couple of days out. Hmmm, wonder if leap year had anything to do with it Another weather point I aften discuss with people, it seems in March (and I have never thought of exactly when in March) we get one cold front through that brings snow around the Hills. We have our best weather from end of Jan, especially Feb and then March through to may is stunning, mild and often blue skies day after day. But at some point in March, we get a whamy, then it clears up and although a big drop in temps, we get the big long still patches of weather till close to the Shortest day. Then Winter hits here after the Shortest day. Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I used to be part of a big Youth event in Wellington and would travel over the Friday of every Queens Birthday Weekend. I did it for years and every year we would have a big storm and more often than not, Ferry's would have to stop sailing at some point over that weekend. S**T you can remember when the ferries 'sailed'! (sorry - just couldn't resist!) Link to post Share on other sites
wheels 543 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Bout the only thing I can remember half the time. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dry Reach Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 TNZ's weather guru Clouds Banham is the man, and is happy to share all his knowledge and data for a nice bottle of wine. He is very accurate and a great guy who, when in Auckland, is happy to share his knowledge. He shared 2 hours of his time with me and my crew back in 2004 and i learnt more in one hour than weeks of surfing the net, reading books, and analysing things like wind data records from Bean Rock for the previous 5 years. While we were with him he was getting emails from people all over the world asking for best routes across the atlantic, best time to leave so and so port, and providing info to superyacht skipper as to the best time for delivery trips... He is the Guru and a bloody nice guy. Link to post Share on other sites
Zoe 8 Posted July 5, 2010 Author Share Posted July 5, 2010 Thanks heaps guys, great advice! Stay tuned for the story. (Yep I've contacted Predictwind and a couple of others, and Clouds is a great idea. Will see how much space I have.) Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 322 Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 He shared 2 hours of his time with me and my crew back in 2004 and i learnt more in one hour than weeks of surfing the net, reading books, and analysing things like wind data records from Bean Rock for the previous 5 years. . So what did you do for the other hour. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dry Reach Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 He shared 2 hours of his time with me and my crew back in 2004 and i learnt more in one hour than weeks of surfing the net, reading books, and analysing things like wind data records from Bean Rock for the previous 5 years. . So what did you do for the other hour. My crew was female but no nothing happened One hour of talking interupted by about one hour of watchin Clouds talk to the world on two laptops. I still have all the data on how to read the weather patterns and "Whats going to happen" for the Gulf. Even simple things like the effect of a Morning low tide on the Manakau and how the sand heats up and sucks the South westerly of the west coast and in to the harbour (during summer) where so well explained. Also the "clocking of the breeze (left or right) depending on the tide, land temp, and the time of day (sun placement) was interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
Zoe 8 Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Argh! I am getting seriously frustrated! Are there any database experts out there who might be able to help me put a query into the NIWA database? It's free for the public to use but requires expertise completely outside of what I will ever understand! If you can volunteer a bit of time for the CC on my behalf, I'll send you the details. My email is zoe@wildemedia.co.nz. Many thanks! Zoe Link to post Share on other sites
Zoe 8 Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 I've got a taker. Thank you Rhys. Link to post Share on other sites
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