Southampton Heliport wind meter. What else do you need to know? The link, perhaps:
Southampton Heliport wind meter.
Where ist? Just east of the eastern jetty at the Shinnecock Inlet. Just = a click, 2/3 mile. Look at the Long Island Windsurfing Map. The map shows the ocean launch...for the helipad just look at the road...the pad is clearly visible just across it, with a big "H" marker. That's where the meter is.
How often is it updated? It looks like every 15-20 minutes or so.
Why does Peconic Jeff care? Because the Shinnecock meter works so rarely that we don't even bother to check, extrapolating ocean winds from iWindsurf's Mecox meter is tricky, and despite Scott's great enthusiasm, the meters to the west are not always portents of western winds to come, and for east winds fugedabada.
Why care about what P-Jeff cares about? He's as enthusiastic a windsurfer as can be found in Greater Peconica (not to mention a weather geek) so if he cares about it (and you're an area windsurfer) then you should probably take some interest.
Even as I post this Sir Jeff is heading to the Bowl, where Chimply Lord Scotworth (the Earl of Kielt) is already chirping about the wind. Perhaps Lord vanderWolf is heading there too. When we learn of their exploits we'll post, correlating sail sizes to the Heliport (helipad etc) wind readings.
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