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Beaufort scale (redirect from High Winds)empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale. The scale that carries...23 KB (1,679 words) - 10:40, 2 June 2024- A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes' first novel, it...13 KB (1,838 words) - 03:18, 14 March 2024
tunnel High speed wind tunnel Subsonic and transonic wind tunnel Supersonic wind tunnel Hypersonic wind tunnel High enthalpy wind tunnel Wind tunnels are also...49 KB (6,776 words) - 06:16, 31 May 2024- A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick...9 KB (1,021 words) - 08:50, 21 April 2024
over terrain and high plateaus can drive monsoon circulations. In coastal areas the sea breeze/land breeze cycle can define local winds; in areas that have...105 KB (11,196 words) - 19:33, 3 June 2024
Gale warning (redirect from High wind warning)low-pressure areas, winds strong enough to catalyze a gale warning can occur in other conditions too, including from anticyclones, or high-pressure systems...9 KB (1,086 words) - 21:05, 25 January 2024- theoretically be applied to other types of weather watches (such as winter storm, high wind, hurricane, or fire weather watches) when an enhanced threat for such...46 KB (6,181 words) - 05:26, 21 May 2024
- Severe weather terminology (United States) (redirect from High wind watch)climatological strong wind frequency. A tropical storm warning implies a high wind warning. High wind watch (HWA) – Strong sustained winds of 40 to 73 miles...131 KB (13,935 words) - 00:48, 5 June 2024
Baja California. They originate from cool, dry high-pressure air masses in the Great Basin. Santa Ana winds are known for the hot, dry weather that they...38 KB (4,449 words) - 22:20, 4 May 2024
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...123 KB (10,954 words) - 17:34, 29 May 2024- A High Wind in Jamaica may refer to: A High Wind in Jamaica (novel), a 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica (film), a 1965 film based on the novel This disambiguation...251 bytes (65 words) - 23:00, 2 September 2012
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...85 KB (9,082 words) - 14:36, 1 June 2024
Windsock (redirect from Wind socks)relative to the mounting pole—in low winds it droops; in high winds, it flies horizontally. Alternating stripes of high-visibility orange and white were initially...5 KB (680 words) - 00:36, 14 February 2024
In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes...16 KB (2,010 words) - 22:45, 17 May 2024
Anemometer (redirect from Wind measurement)anemometer (from Ancient Greek άνεμος (ánemos) 'wind', and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') is a device that measures wind speed and direction. It is a common instrument...29 KB (3,688 words) - 01:44, 20 April 2024
Wind turbine design is the process of defining the form and configuration of a wind turbine to extract energy from the wind. An installation consists...91 KB (10,945 words) - 14:28, 21 May 2024
a tower, thus benefiting from the higher velocity and persistence of wind at high altitudes, while avoiding the expense of tower construction, or the need...13 KB (1,317 words) - 06:14, 3 May 2024
Levante) is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France, an example of mountain-gap wind. In Roussillon it is called...10 KB (1,517 words) - 01:20, 13 March 2024- Storm (redirect from Wind storm)pressure develops with the system of high pressure surrounding it. This combination of opposing forces can create winds and result in the formation of storm...51 KB (5,813 words) - 04:49, 14 May 2024
- Verses — XXV. The WindRobert Louis Stevenson XXV THE WIND I SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard
- Wind, while simply "the flow of air or other gases that compose an atmosphere (including that of the planet Earth)," has since ancient times been a significant
- Wind is fundamentally the flow of air from high pressure to low pressure across the surface of the Earth. Weather reports often discuss barometric readings