March 28th 08, 07:55 PM
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Boat Race weather ... a bit of a blow?
Martin Rowley wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...ng/7318164.stm
... the race starts ~ 1715GMT. Mean 10m wind speed from GFS at 18GMT
of some 20kn, and using this product ...
http://www2.wetter3.de/Animation_06_...Grad/36_25.gif
it looks as the gusts could be around the 40 kn mark, though I suspect
this might be overdoing things. However, even at, say, 30 knots,
conditions in the open areas of the River will be tricky to say the
least.
[BTW, quick conversion from km/hr to knots ...
divide km/hr figure by 2
add the *tens* figure of that result to itself ...
e.g., 80 km/hr - (divide /2) - 40 (add tens fig) -44 knots. ]
Martin.
I wonder who will sink first!?
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