SummitStupid wrote:Just out of interest, why do people want to know wind speed and direction?
On a ship at sea it's quite necessary, every morning we have a meeting where the Captain reads out the weather forecast which includes sea-state. Up in the hills we are faced with similar potentially life-threatening weather conditions. Some of us have even had tents sunk. Once up at Loch A'an I spent a terrible night having the tent battered against me all night long after a calm and windless, frosty day. In the morning as I struggled to put on my gaiters, a gaiter was whipped from my hand by the gale, and was halfway down Loch A'an by the time I turned my head to see. The hills make their own winds, known as Katabatic winds, now there's lively!
- Katabatic winds, minus twenty centigrade, 1200 feet above sea level. Chilly.