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Strongest recorded GUST 70 KNOTS Love the scale

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Created by king of the point > 9 months ago, 10 Mar 2013
king of the point
WA, 1836 posts
10 Mar 2013 4:05PM
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I like the scale(BROWN),,,,,, had 24 hours of rain 40mm plus, at a guess and this Gust apparently,...... now im confused ,,, isnt kmph more that knots
65 knots thats 130kmph.................Melt down for every 5 knots 10kmph
is that whats being said?
1 KNOT = _______KMPH


southace
SA, 4803 posts
10 Mar 2013 7:10PM
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1 knt = 1.82 km

king of the point
WA, 1836 posts
10 Mar 2013 4:48PM
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southace said...
1 knt = 1.82 km


Yer ok ,,,, ta,,,,, some what less melted

southace
SA, 4803 posts
10 Mar 2013 8:17PM
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That is a cyclonic gust I'm thinking just a fault. I got 68 knots in cyclone Yasi aboard my yacht and Yasi destroyed many items in Qld.

Rabbs
251 posts
10 Mar 2013 6:04PM
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I'm a geek for numbers its.........1.852km/kmph

southace
SA, 4803 posts
10 Mar 2013 9:04PM
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Yeah but no but yeah but.....cause the world is round and the hours get shorter you can't use kmph at sea so it is just a base unit KM virsus a true actual nautical mile NM in minutes of latitude per hour! Haha

FormulaNova
WA, 15106 posts
10 Mar 2013 6:50PM
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Yes, it seems like there is a scaling problem with the graphs. If the wind went to 70 knots, the scaling for the km/h should have been much more than 53 km/h

It's broken.

Darvio
SA, 163 posts
10 Mar 2013 10:17PM
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Agreed the scaling is incorrect.

To be a true geek... 1nm is the distance you will cover if you traverse 1 minute of longitude at the equator.

There is a great book called longditude. It's about john Harrison, the bloke who invented the first clock/watch that maintained its accuracy at sea well enough to enable sailors to measure longditude and determine their location. Well worth the read.

Mark _australia
WA, 23702 posts
10 Mar 2013 9:19PM
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A kiter walked past, and the estimated speeds quadrupled.

Back to normal straight after...


felixdcat
WA, 3519 posts
11 Mar 2013 11:19AM
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^^^^^+1gold^^^^^^

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
11 Mar 2013 4:34PM
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Mark _australia said...
A kiter walked past


That might also account for the arrow colour too

laurie
QLD, 3902 posts
11 Mar 2013 5:33PM
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Cheers kopt .. scale all fixed .. here's the fixed version;




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