In what units is wind speed measured?
2 Answers
May 9, 2017
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 .
May 24, 2017
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.