Wellingtonians may think they know a thing or two about gusts and gales, but the community of Castlepoint home of a howling southery and wind-whipped sand would like a word.
Yesterday historian Redmer Yska told Morning Report he thinks Wellington needs to give a specific name to the city's torment. Wellington gets winds over 63 kilometres an hour 166 days a year.
But Castlepoint comfortably, or uncomfortably, beats that.
Gusts of at least 63 kilometres an hour happen on average 227 days a year and on 102 of those days, the gusts are over 96 kilometres and hour.
Joe Vermeer runs the Castlepoint Beach Store Anders Crofoot owns Castlepoint Station.
The pair speak to Corin Dann.
