Comparison between professional and amateur windspeed measurements.
On Mar 19, 2:16 pm, Alan White wrote:
On 19 Mar 2007 07:06:15 -0700, "Tudor Hughes" wrote:
I agree with all that. It seems that many observers have
fallen in love with their gadget without knowing how to use it or
being able to evaluate the significance of what it shows. A further
gadget, of course, enables them to publish their findings wordwide. I
have never tried to measure wind speed, not having a 10-m pole in the
middle of a field. A Beaufort estimate is quite enough, anything
more being too much information, nearly all of it useless. It all
rather reminds me of kids' mobile phone calls, i.e. bereft of real
content but it's a nice toy.
I think I'm going to cry...
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Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:-http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather
Why?
Tudor Hughes
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