In article om,
Dave Liquorice writes:
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:27:10 +0000, alanwhitewick wrote:

58mph 0450 GMT Wincanton, Somerset

Mean or gust?

Personally I feel that the quoting of gust speeds is rather meaningless
and rather tabloid mejia like. An accompanying mean would mitigate that
somewhat. Case in point the lone 57mph gust here at 0259, was that real
or a instrumentation glitch? Other gusts at that time where the low 50's
mph.


But isn't it the gusts that are going to do most of the damage? That
seems to me to justify quoting them, though not to the exclusion of the
mean speed.
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