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Alright, now I will show my true ignorance:

What is the practical value of the beaufort scale of wind force?  Why is it
not sufficient to simply reckon the wind speed in knots and leave it at
that?

Robert


----- Original Message -----
From: Wm Pettyplace 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Silicon Sea: Beaufort Wind Scale


> The National Weather Service has been forecasting wind speed in MPH for
> quite a while now for all public forecasts, but knots are still used in
> marine and aviation forecasts, except visibility is in statute miles for
> aviation.  A good percentage of the public didn't know what a knot was, or
> how to relate to it in MPH.
>
> Bill Pettyplace
>
> At 09:57 AM 10/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 09:32 AM, Dan Hogan wrote:
> >
> >>Beaufort Scale of Wind Force
> >
> >Thanks; that's handy to have around.  What is sad is most versions of
> >this
> >that I see published in today's reference works do not even give the
> >wind
> >speed in knots!  They use MPH instead.
> >
> >Dan
>
>
>
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