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Detailed summary of current weather observations for the local area, consisting of sky condition; actual and apparent temperature (heat index or wind chill values when applicable), and other pertinent data (wind speed/direction/gusts; dew point (1999–2000 and 2003–2022); barometric pressure; humidity; cloud ceiling (1999–2000) and ...
The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 113.3 m/s (408 km/h; 253 mph; 220.2 kn; 372 ft/s) [6] [7] The wind gust was evaluated by the WMO Evaluation Panel, who found ...
Wind gust speeds during Storm Abigail in November 2015 Sound of wind blowing in a pine forest at around 25 m/sec, with gust alterations. A wind gust or just gust is a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed. It usually lasts for less than 20 seconds, briefer than a squall, which lasts minutes. A gust is followed by a lull (or slackening) in ...
National snow forecast. The map below shows the probability that an area could receive more than 4 inches of snow. Use the slider at the top left to toggle by day.
That weather will include 4 to 6 inches of rain in a short period of time and maximum wind gusts of up to 60 mph. Hawkins urged people to not leave things outside that could turn into flying ...
A short burst of high speed wind is termed a wind gust; one technical definition of a wind gust is: the maxima that exceed the lowest wind speed measured during a ten-minute time interval by 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) for periods of seconds. A squall is an increase of the wind speed above a certain threshold, which lasts for a minute or more.
The wind advisory, which warns about gusts as high as 43 mph, will be in effect all day today. The alert notes that these speeds are enough to blow around unsecured objects and blow down tree ...
In Canada, a severe thunderstorm is defined as having wind gusts of greater than 90 km/h (56 mph), hail with a diameter of greater than two centimetres (0.79 in), rainfall rates of greater than 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in one hour or greater than 75 millimetres (3.0 in) in three hours, or tornadoes. [14]