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Beaufort scale
From: Barry Hudson
Date: 2002 Oct 15, 16:00 -0700
From: Barry Hudson
Date: 2002 Oct 15, 16:00 -0700
Good point Robert. My guess is that the scale is there cover off chunks of wind speed. Each number on the scale takes care of a spectrum of wind speeds. Wind is never constant in speed but varies around a datum.There must be something better than this? Barrie Hudson
