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Lake wind advisory NPW – Sustained wind speeds of 20 to 29 miles per hour (32 to 47 km/h) are forecast to persist for one hour or longer on area lakes that may cause hazards for maritime travel; wind speeds meeting advisory criteria may vary depending on the county warning area. The usage of this product is locally determined by each Weather ...
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Sir Francis Beaufort. The scale that carries Beaufort's name had a long and complex evolution from the previous work of others (including Daniel Defoe the century before). In the 18th century, naval officers made regular weather observations, but there was no standard scale and so they could be very subjective — one man's "stiff breeze" might be another's "soft breeze"—: Beaufort succeeded ...
Hurricane categories. Category 1: Winds 74-95 mph. Damage primarily to shrubbery, trees, poorly constructed items, and unanchored mobile homes. Category 2: Winds 96-110 mph. Some roof damage ...
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From these wind speed numbers, qualitative descriptions of damage were made for each category of the Fujita scale, and then these descriptions were used to classify tornadoes. [ 9 ] At the time Fujita derived the scale, little information was available on damage caused by wind, so the original scale presented little more than educated guesses ...
NCEP codes free software (C and FORTRAN library) for decoding and encoding data in GRIB 2 format (some template only) JGrib - Jgrib is a free library for reading GRIB files in Java. Meteosatlib - Meteosatlib is a free software C++ library and set of tools to convert satellite images between various formats; it can read and write GRIB data, and ...
A Wind Chill Warning remains in effect until 6 p.m. Thursday. The AccuWeather Alert Day continues with extremely cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills Wednesday night. Lows from -32 to -24 ...