Welcome to Wind

New Zealand's premier site for getting wind information from around the country

We provide a lot of information for free on the web and then use the money from the TXT2WIND service to pay for the operation of the site. If you are using the site, and getting value out of it...send a message, you will get the information you need while keeping the site growing.

December 19, 2010

Critical hardware failure experienced.

This week wind.co.nz experienced a major hardware failure that required a full rebuild of the server that hosts the site.

The hardware failure caused the loss of a small number of subscriptions. If you have a current subscription and are unable to log into the site please notify me with via the contact form with your email address and the name on the card used to pay for the subscription and I will reinstate your subscription immedialy.

Thanks for your patience - Geoff

October 7, 2010

Well is the windy time of the year, and what a blast we have had in wellington. I've lost a few readings so will be going out to check the units as part of the spring clean, so shouldn't be too long to get that all back up and running. Its been pretty solid so I've been slow in getting to them

Also looks like we will have more site information to address the wind forecast part. Have been waiting to see what else is out there and think I have found something that will work.

The FREE part of the site, displays data at 3 hourly intervals...make sure that you check the 'time' of the data, as some have been caught out. Registered users, get most of the data in 5 minute intervals. You can also TXT to get the last reading.

NOTE: We have disabled the Metservice hour by hour forecast, as from the user feedback and our own analysis...the wind calculation at this interval really wasn't adding anymore value that the standard marine forecast, which is very good at updated every Six hours.

We have dropped the price accordingly as we aren't paying for that data, so neither should you. We still have to charge a nominal fee to support the operation, and to cover the Metservice's fee's and operation which is why the free data is generally 3 hourly. A few of the wind.co sensors are still free for every 5 minutes.

The Windiest Spot

This is currently the windiest sensor.

You can easily TXT to this sensor from your mobile phone to recieve even more information... click here for instructions on using the TXT2Wind service.

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