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How do they report wind speed?
How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH, since the wind is
constantly getting faster or slower? Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? |
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How do they report wind speed?
"Richard Fangnail" schrieb
Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? It's a 10 minute average, according to the WMO rules Jochen |
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How do they report wind speed?
"Richard Fangnail" schrieb
How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH Who reports just one figure for a whole day? Usually you hear something like "20 to 30 mph in the afternoon, with gusts up to 50" Jochen |
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How do they report wind speed?
On Jan 8, 11:02*am, Richard Fangnail
wrote: How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH, since the wind is constantly getting faster or slower? *Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? They report it by publishing it in a newspaper, or by reading it aloud over the radio, or on a television set. It can also be reported on the Internet. |
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How do they report wind speed?
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:02:21 -0800 (PST), Richard Fangnail
wrote: How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH, since the wind is constantly getting faster or slower? Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? Check out www.wunderground.com and plug in your location (works for USA at least). Scroll down and find link for historical data. Then scroll down to look at charts. |
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How do they report wind speed?
On Jan 8, 11:02 am, Richard Fangnail
wrote: How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH, since the wind is constantly getting faster or slower? Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? They station gnomes all over a region that is expected to have high winds. They do a rough measurement of how fast the wind is going by how much the tops of their caps get blown over in the wind. Every time this happens, the gnomes write their guesses down on paper, and send it via carrier pigeon to the NWS office. A man there tabulates and comes up with an estimate based on the figures the gnomes have written down. Also, when you see a red radar spot on the map indicating severe weather in the area, it's not a computer rendering, but an actual photograph of a swarm of gnomes blowing about in the wind after a tornado smashed through their village. |
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How do they report wind speed?
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:02:21 -0800, Richard Fangnail wrote:
How do they report wind speed for a past day in MPH, since the wind is constantly getting faster or slower? Do they average it, or maybe just give the maximum speed? It's recorded as a 24-hour mean of speed and direction with the mean of the speed of all gusts as well as the maximum gust both noted separately. Hourly and monthly averages are also recorded. This is used for climatology records. However, a "normal" report like you get from the TV for current conditions is the instantaneous direction and speed at the time the observation is taken. It is not an average. Stef Former USAF meteorologist |
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