I live out in the country. Built a house in 2008. Upgraded to the VP2 at that time. It's quite windy here in ND. I started noticing about 2 weeks ago, what my anemometer was showing for wind and what sounds my house makes in the wind aren't coinciding with what I thought they should be. I looked at my Wind Run data from Cumulus and it confirms what I suspect. January and February are about half the amount of wind run they should have been compared to other similar months.
I did the math. My 10 year old anemometer has about 744,000 miles of wind run on it. Since mine is the older style read switch with bushings, I decided to put a whole new unit on order. Get the upgrades in reliability. Not that I'm complaining. I think I got good mileage out of mine.
Just thought I would share...