More trivia for the armchair tramper…
The WRC has some cool data on their website of weather/river measurements from around the Wellington region including the Tararuas. (Carkeek, Angle Knob, Bull Mound etc)
http://www.wrc.govt.nz/EDC/MON/hydrotelactx/telemetry.htm
The image below is a plot of the windspeed at Angle Knob. It has been relatively calm. Over the last 12mth period quite a few gusts exceeded 200km/hr.
![angle_knob.jpg](https://www.wtmc.org.nz/download/angle_knob.jpg)