#dlregatta – There's white water across Dublin Bay this morning and as sailors will tell you it's enough to blow dogs off chains. Curiously though the wind speed readings from the Dublin Bay Buoy in the middle of five Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta races areas only show a fraction of that. It's led to comment on twitter (see below) that calls into question the accuracy of the current readings of the Dublin Bay buoy. Twitter users have been able to live track live weather updates from a buoy in the middle of Dublin Bay since last May. The @DublinBayBuoy account is tweeting at regular intervals with the average wind speed, gust speed and wind direction on the bay, as well as the current wave height and water temperature. And it's all been made possible thanks to an array of sensors installed on the buoy by the Commissioners of Irish Lights to record live meteorological ocean data. The Twitter bot should come in especially handy at this weekend's 409-boat regatta among some of the Irish Seas top sailing talent but only if the information is accurate.
Anyone experience this weather and wave during racing today?? @dlregatta @sailingindublin https://t.co/HPjE7HDwjn
— Damien Byrne (@db2909) July 9, 2015
The conditions certainly don't match @DublinBayBuoy readings... https://t.co/ecIPEKVegZ
— Dun Laoghaire Marina (@DLMarina_Dublin) July 10, 2015