Then comes the knot. Of course, we are not talking about sailing knots, such as Figure-8 Knot. A nautical knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour (1 knot = 1.15 miles per hour) or approximately 1.15078 mph. Similar to the speed and distance measurement on land, ...
We left Brightlingsea at 0815, quickly putting in a reef to better handle the 18knots gusts as we reached down the River Colne and across the mouth of the River Blackwater. The spring tide was barrelling in at over 2 knots, and as we crossed the main Blackwater channel the wind against ...
Category m/s knots (kn) mph km/h hPa* Damage 5 ≥ 70 ≥ 137 ≥ 157 ≥ 252 < 925 Catastrophic damage, many wooden homes will be destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Debris will block roads. Prolonged power outages. 4 58–70 113–136 130–156 209–251 926–945 Se...
The most severetropical cyclones—those with winds of 64 knots (74 mph or 119 km/h) or more—are calledhurricanesortyphoons. Which term is used depends on where the storm occurs. The namehurricaneis used fortropical cyclonesof the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the cent...
If you are traveling at 8 knots for 45 minutes, how far will you have traveled in nautical miles?Knot:Knot is a unit of speed usually used on ships or planes, it is equivalent to 1 nautical mile per hour. It can also be simply written as its symbol...
Forty-one years ago, Jennifer Lee was a miserable middle-schooler with divorced parents. She was, by her own account, “Always a mess. Stains on my clothes… knots in my hair… chubby. I was born into a very modest life. I was a kid with ADHD, terrible in school. I don’t think...
Let’s say it’s about the same as the amount of aluminum in soil (although it’s probably higher). How much dust is there in rain? According to Edward Elway Free of the the United State Bureau of Soils, in his book “The Movement of Soil Material by the Wind“, in tests performe...
The second line is the altitude in 100s of feet and the speed in knots (1 knot = 1.15 mph). So 319^ 334 means 31,900 (ascending) and 334 knots (384 mph). You will notice the green traffic is mostly east west. You can look up individual planes by their flight number on google....
Waterspout formation typically occurswhen cold air moves across the Great Lakes and results in large temperature differences between the warm water and the overriding cold air. They tend to last from about two to twenty minutes, and move along at speeds of 10 to 15 knots. ...
as “Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like” by Eric Holthaus at Politico —“It’s time to open our eyes and prepare for the world that’s coming.” And “Stop talking right now about the threat of climate change. It’s here; it’s happening” by Bill McKibben at The Guardian ...