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Beaufort scale


Subject: Beaufort scale
From: bhudson (bhudson@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 19:00:38 EDT


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





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