-----Original Message----- From: Royce Perry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:10 AM To: 'Mike Clouston' Subject: RE: [ORCADIA] Wind speeds I stand corrected,,,you are, as you well know,,,absolutely right. I always get that turned back end to front. ;-) R -----Original Message----- From: Mike Clouston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:00 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Wind speeds 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