Got a WA weekend west paper looked at the weather maps only to be totally confused as there using KMPH instead of KNOTS whats going on 
SO
I go direct on the internet to the WA BOM coastal waters and they changed all the area wind forcasting locations and added heaps of stuff.
At least there talking KNOTS for marine forcasts
Now im just trying to work out where there talking about.
TWO ROCKS is now famous ? Not just for car jackens , bumming smokes,and burning cars
Just after a quick forcast not a new education ......
What do you reckon ..........
Does this mean Seabreeze (laurie) your on the move with updates to
There was some guy on the radio the other day stating that they now can forecast the weather accurately for about 2 to 4 days I think he said..(so you will actually know what the weather is doing on the weekends)...
hence the bom site has been changed
Go figure
..I thought for forecasting weather...they used a dartboard
I see they changed the basic layout of the BOM site. A little more readable (or dumbed down) on the marine page I guess.
As to km/h instead of knots it does not surprise me. The news stations obviously have never heard of knots and think kn is same as km
Sooo many times I have had a solid 4.7 afternoon so it is a good 25 - 30kn and then watch the 5:30pm news and they say is is "SSW 25 kilometres per hour". Yes fair enough it is Mt Lawley weather station, but no fkn way is it 25kph after a fatman just used 4.7 all afternoon.... it is 25 bloody KN not 25 KM
When ch9 were promoting weather girl Angela Tsun as having studied weather and being sooo qualified (not just a blonde in a tight dress) I laughed my arse off when she was talking about "currently 30kmh winds" when trees were bending in half.
Retards.
Bring back Beaufort scale, then we can hear about using a 10m in Force9 instead of 60kn in the kite forum
Yer the layout on the BOM is hard to read ..ie...they need to at least highlight the areas of the coast your looking for as it is its one big long forcast ,you keep loosing your place of reference
As for the papers using kmph thats stupid and only adds confusion
some one knows the conversion ???????
5knots = kmph
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Ps where the hell is that suburb in perth there giving the perth area coastal water forcast from .............carnt recall the name.... south of perth ???????
Nautical miles per hour conversion to k's is 1.85 (normal miles is 1.6)
10kn = 18kph near enough
etc.
Where it gets fun -
US and UK nautical miles are so close it does not matter, basically it is 1.85.
so 1 knot is one nautical mile per hour.
or 1.85 kph. Easy.
But yank sailors often talk about sailing in "20mph winds". Do they mean 20 nautical miles per hour which is 20kn, or 20mph which is different?
Typical for them to confuse everyone.
