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Bug 305808 - Add Beaufort unit for wind speed
Add Beaufort unit for wind speed
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: gweather
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-29 09:10 UTC by Malte
Modified: 2005-05-31 09:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Malte 2005-05-29 09:10:54 UTC 
For sailors it would be nice if the wind speed could be shown in Beaufort.
Calculate it like this:

1 bft ~= (1 m/s / 0.836) ^ (2/3)

You usually round the number very generously (first position after decimal point).
Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2005-05-31 09:38:29 UTC 
2005-05-31  Davyd Madeley  <davyd@madeley.id.au>

        * gweather-pref.c:
        * gweather.h:
        * weather.c:
        * weather.h: Added support for the Beaufort wind speed scale. See
          http://www.zetnet.co.uk/sigs/weather/Met_Codes/beaufort.htm.
          Closes bug #305808.

Ok, I've implemented this in HEAD. The order of magnitude seemed correct when I
checked it out but will obviously need checking. Perhaps you could take the
gweather documentation and spend some time writing stuff to explain these
scales, because they will be confusing to other people.