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Jersey's offshore reefs are now helping to forecast our weather and should help improve safety at sea.
Data is being transmitted to Jersey Met from the wind masts at the Écréhous and the Minquiers.
The monitoring equipment and ten metre mast have been set up as part of a three-year offshore project to find out whether we could harness the power of the wind to power electricity on the Island but it's useful information for Islanders heading out to sea too.
The live wind information is transmitted on a radio network straight to Jersey Met’s computers who stream graphs on their website that are updated every 15 minutes.
Environment’s Deputy Chief Officer Willie Peggie said: “This complex project is improving our understanding of wind on the offshore reefs and it’ll give us some useful information over the long term.
“But there are tangible additional benefits; it’s feeding back data to Jersey Met so they can provide a more comprehensive service to the community, the real time wind information is already proving useful to people heading out to sea for work or pleasure, and it also improves safety.”
You can find out how windy it is on our offshore reefs by clicking on the live weather observations page here.
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