A knot is just slightly less than a mile/hour....so yes...those speeds would blow your hat off. R -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sian Thomas Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ORCADIA] Wind speeds For those interested go to the web sitebelow and click on Live Weather. You can see winds speeds around Orkney. No idea what Knots is in mph though! All I can say is its a bit fresh today..... http://www.orkneyharbours.com/ Orcadia Group Photo Album http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Royce Perry wrote: > A knot is just slightly less than a mile/hour....so yes...those speeds would > blow your hat off. > R Sorry you are wrong, Royce. A knot is more than one mile per hour. To convert knots to m.p.h. multiply by 1.15 50 knots = 57.5 m.p.h. We are just coming up to the autumn equinox in about another week or so. Gales can be relied upon at this time of year. -- Kind regards Mike Clouston