Received: from zonker-fddi.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA04511; Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:17:01 -0700 Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by zonker.hpl.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA16381; Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:16:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:16:56 -0700 From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9404182116.AA16381@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Coyote 4/17/94
> It seemed like there was a definite wind line from the edge of the
> parking lot at the opposite side of the lagoon straight out.
"There's more wind upwind." You hear it all the time, you see it often,
but it's just an illusion. You're looking at the whitecaps. Whitecaps
are more visible on the downwind side of a swell. You look upwind,
you always see more white than looking downwind.
The illusion seems to be strongest when the wind is most marginal - just
barely capping.
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"Mother, the WEATHER is not a PRETTY THING." --Bill Griffith
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