Received: from hplms26.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA12672; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:30:07 -0700 Return-Path: <prevett@shredder.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis> Received: from sgi.sgi.com (SGI.COM) by hplms26.hpl.hp.com with ESMTP ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1S) id AA196884243; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:30:43 -0700 Received: from shredder.engr.sgi.com by sgi.sgi.com via ESMTP (950405.SGI.8.6.12/910110.SGI) for <@sgi.sgi.com:wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> id JAA08878; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:26:01 -0700 Received: by shredder.engr.sgi.com (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) id JAA19638; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:26:00 -0700 From: "Bob Prevett" <prevett@shredder.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9507210926.ZM19636@shredder.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 09:26:00 -0700 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.0B.0 25aug93 MediaMail) To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Wind guaging at Rio Vista Cc: prevett@shredder.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
OK, so I understand the basic regional conditions required for wind at Rio
Vista: thick marine layer, fog spreading across bay to Oakland. To see how
strong the wind really is, I've been using two sources: the WindCraft windtalker
line at 916-777-7007 and the Travis_AFB entry from the Ken Poulton wind report.
My problem is that whenever I call the wind talker to see if the morning and/or
the afternoon session is happening, the wind really doesn't seem that strong.
For example, right now (Friday 9am) the windtalker says wind ranging from 12 to
26 mph, averaging southwest at 18. The Travis_AFB entry from the Ken Poulton
wind report is similar: 230 degrees at 18 mph, although the time stamp is 0455.
How well do the wind talker and Travis_AFB data correlate to the real wind on
the water?
Tnx
BobP
-- Bob Prevett (prevett@esd.sgi.com-DeleteThis) Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (415) 390-5315 M/S 2U-923
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