Weather where you are?

Vince said:
Come on, what about leaving Diesel Four-wheel Drives with their engines running, more rants please
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T.C said:
FFS, wind speed in knots, anything else is totally useless.
Pisses me off no end when the news gives it in KM/h, means nothing.


Sorry
Thats my rant over for now.....
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40 m/s =78 knots
Just double it will get you close enough for government work. That’s how we worked it out on flights into Russia, and the other eastern states, who give landing winds in m/s.
 
Correct😀
And halve it when it’s given in km/h
But that’s not the point
The people who rely on wind observations talk in knots
That’s the way it has always been
So pandering to Jo public rather than educating them is a step in the wrong direction
IMHO
 
T.C said:
Correct😀
And halve it when it’s given in km/h
But that’s not the point
The people who rely on wind observations talk in knots
That’s the way it has always been
So pandering to Jo public rather than educating them is a step in the wrong direction
IMHO
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Don't disagree with what you are saying TC, however in this neck of the woods when they talk of a cyclone about to hit which will have winds gusting to 300 kmh it hits home...............😱
 
Here the expected wind is always forecast here in meters per second, and the current wind in km/h. I really don't get it. As Sock does, I just double it for speed in knots, which I work with all the time, but ten knots being 18.5 km/h I don't usually bother with that. A bit like how fuel use was always miles per gallon, then km per litre, and then they changed to litres per ten km for some bloody reason.
 
Shajota said:
Don't disagree with what you are saying TC, however in this neck of the woods when they talk of a cyclone about to hit which will have winds gusting to 300 kmh it hits home...............😱
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Yeah I get that.
But 150 knts sounds bloody scary to me also:eek::eek::eek:
I reckon 3 times as scary;)

Never mind , its just me getting old
Better to just go for a ride.
 
I knew a builder who was running a job during our decimalisation. The architect did the plans in metric and his guys were wingeing about not being able to read the numbers and kept converting back to imperial with dual-marked rulers and stuff. After half a day of watching in frustration at the wasted time and timber, the swearing and comments about not understanding and the endless working out with pencils he ordered everyone into the smoko room and to hand over their rulers and tape measures, which he threw straight in the bin. He handed them new metric-only tools saying “Now get back to work and stop trying to convert everything, the plans are metric so work in metric, it’ll still be a house when you’ve finished!”

After impressing me with this story he then said, “‘course it backfired on me, the next build was drawn in imperial so I had to buy them new rulers again” 🤣
 
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