{weather.report} Usefulness
All right, all right. I shall try to be more useful in the cyber space. Perhaps, throwing a cyber touch-typing party wasn't such a great idea. So here we go:
Squall (n.)
A squall is the rapid onset of strong winds with speeds increasing to at least 16 knots and sustained at 22 knots or more for a minimum of one minute.
Gust (n.)
A sudden significant increase in, or rapid variation of wind speed. Usually a gust lasts less than twenty seconds.
And of course, wind is the horizontal movement of air in relation to the earth's surface. Wind direction tells where the wind is blowing from. For example, a "north wind" is coming from the north and is blowing towards the south. There are four components of wind that are measured: direction, speed, character (i.e. whether it's a gust or a squall) and shifts.
Source: The Weather Network
Right now, we have a 61 km/h wind blowing from NW with gusts of 76 km/h in Toronto. The crazy autumn's back. Soon will super crazy winter be.
Today's lesson (motivated by Toronto's crazy winds):
The difference between squalls and gusts
Squall (n.)
A squall is the rapid onset of strong winds with speeds increasing to at least 16 knots and sustained at 22 knots or more for a minimum of one minute.
Gust (n.)
A sudden significant increase in, or rapid variation of wind speed. Usually a gust lasts less than twenty seconds.
And of course, wind is the horizontal movement of air in relation to the earth's surface. Wind direction tells where the wind is blowing from. For example, a "north wind" is coming from the north and is blowing towards the south. There are four components of wind that are measured: direction, speed, character (i.e. whether it's a gust or a squall) and shifts.
Source: The Weather Network
Right now, we have a 61 km/h wind blowing from NW with gusts of 76 km/h in Toronto. The crazy autumn's back. Soon will super crazy winter be.
posted by Azad at
12:41 PM
4 Comments:
Boring (adj.)
An abrupt flow of irrelevant information about darn winds in the middle of a super fun online typarty.
Source: Encylopedia of the bored Engineers Sans Frontieres with no real life.
By
Anonymous, At
9/29/2005 3:07 PM
:))
The online party now we continue shall [master Yoda tone].
By
Azad, At
9/29/2005 4:08 PM
Weather Science... Seems intresting... But How about doin some image recognition stuff on that picture of clouds of yours. You know.. hash the page around a little and make it into something
By
Siabolourani, At
9/30/2005 9:34 PM
No not really :) not an interesting subject. But I had to know what those crazy winds were called. This image recognition stuff might be a good idea, will think about it!
Hey BTW, I checked your blog. Cool stuff dawg. I didn't know you started writin again.
cheers
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Azad, At
10/01/2005 6:07 PM
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