Re: Decrypting wind reports

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 11:57:15 PDT


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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> I am new to the Bay Area. I have just subscribed to these wind reports
> (that's great, thanks for enabling this!), but I still have problem to
> associate a place with corresponding nicknames.

They are arranged in the report as
    buoys + oakland soundings balloon info
    coast (N to S)
    W Bay
    E Bay
    valley
    sierras + pts east
    oregon

http://www.labs.agilent.com/personal/Ken_Poulton/windspeed.info has a
map of coastal names. For others, get a map or try mapblast.com.

Sorry it's not any better documented than that...

Ken Poulton
poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis

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