Question

In what units is wind speed measured?

Answer 1

There are a few traditionals, an American and two metrics

Explanation:

Beaufort-scale: runs from 0 (no wind at all) to 10 (storm) and up.

Knots: nautical miles per hour (former British)

mph: 'normal' miles per hour (US)

km/h: kilometers per hour

SI: m/s meters per second

These may all be converted into each other, except the Beaufort scale. Here every number represents a wind speed range .

Answer 2

Knots

Explanation:

The official ICAO standard for wind speed measurement is knots (KT) (nautical miles per hour). Public weather will use kilometers per hour or miles per hour in countries that have not gone metric.

Incidentally a nautical mile is the distance from one minute of latitude to the next, and therefore it is a metric unit of measurement.