Scale of the wind forces with description (land)

Sym- Beaufort bol 0 weather close to you 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 km/h 1 1-5 6-11 12-19 20-28 29-38 39-49 50-61 62-74 75-88 89-102 103-117 118-133 m/s 0-0.2 0.3-1.5 1.6-3.3 3.4-5.4 5.5-7.9 8.0-10.7 10.8-13.8 13.9-17.1 17.2-20.7 20.8-24.4 24.5-28.4 28.5-32.6 32.7-36.9 knts. Designation 1 1-3 4-6 7-10 11-15 16-21 22-27 28-33 34-40 41-47 48-55 56-63 64-71 Calm Quiet course Easy breeze Gentle breeze Moderate breeze Fresh breeze High wind Near gale Effect on Land No air movement, smoke rises perpendicularly. Hardly noticeably, smoke drives easily, wind wings and vanes are motionless. Sheets rustle, wind in the face noticeably. Sheets and thin branches move, streamers are stretched. Branches move, loose paper by the ground are lifted. Larger branches and trees move, wind clearly audibly. Thick branches move, audible whistling at wires rope, in telephone lines. Trees vary, resistance when going against the wind.

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Stormy wind Large trees move, branches break of trees, when going when going. Gale Storm Branches break, smaller damage to houses, garden furniture are upset and blown away, when going substantial handicap. Trees break, garden furniture is blown away, larger damage to houses; rarely in the interior.

Violent gusts. Heavy storm and forest damage, roofs are taken off, cars thrown from the trace, going not possibly; Violent storm very rarely in the interior. Hurricane Heaviest storm damages and devastations; very rarely in the interior. 1

meteScool_wind (C.Mittl)
Donnerstag, 9. September 2010

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