On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:30:15 +0000, Alan White
wrote:

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:19:26 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

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.

In a forecast, yes, but in a report, no.

A report to or for whom? I know that if I (or you) lost roof tiles I'd
be equally interested in the mean wind speed *and* the gust speed.

If we only know the mean wind speed we are reduced to estimating the
gust speed using tables or formulae and I know which I'd rather have -
so why not report it?

And without gust reporting, we cannot assess the accuracy of the
forecast

--
Dave