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What idiot decided that this was a good thing to use for the Win 8 weather widget?
I check it to see how bad the wind is, today, and is says "6".
Great. "6". That's 25-31mph.
25-31.
So which is it?!? 25? 26? 27? 31? There's one Hell of a difference between 25 and 31 if you're riding a bluddy bike!
Or even if you're walking!
Will someone please inform the geniuses at Win 8 Control that most of us don't leave our houses and jump into oil tankers to commute to work!
The worst of this is that the weather widget is the last remaining item (apart from the Desktop link) on my start screen, and now even it is falling to the wayside.
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Do you seriously believe that even the official weather forecasters could tell which it is? Wind speed is not constant, it tends to rise and fall, generally in a fairly random manner.
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They can tell the mean average now in just about any location in the world, and that's what's reported.
A mean average of 25 means between 20 and 30.
A mean average of 31 means between 26 and 36.
A Beaufort 6 therefore means anywhere between 20 and 36.
I know that a statement that the wind is 28mph means that it is stronger than if it were stated as 25 mph; the same goes for 31 and 28, and even more so for 31 and 25
"Beaufort 6" removes all of that detail.
It's Beaufort 6 now (50kph), but I'll wait until it dies down to Beaufort 6 (40kph) before getting my bike out.
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like yesterday evening where the wind was mostly quiet, but with gusts up to 80 km/h  . Don´t think the gusts were that fast, but riding through it with my bycicle was not real fun. (The bloody insanely amounts of rain and hail didn´t help either  )
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Very similar here, one minute sunny and calm, next we were in the middle of a gale.
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Here[^]
You shouldn't have any problem now, no matter where in the world or at what altitude. 
Marc
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Ooh, Shiny!
Even a webcam!
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That is a very cool weather page, thanks for the link!
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Best. Site.
veni bibi saltavi
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My Windows 8.1 weather widget reports wind speed in kmph.
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Yup, and sites like this[^] show the weather being reported in mph, but I can't find anything that tells me how to configure it.
This[^], of course, is useless.
I've clicked, right-clicked, pressed, and long-pressed everything visible (and probably a few invisible things, too), but no config screen pops up -- and I don't know if it's even worth looking in the registry editor.
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It is strange that you are getting the Beauford Scale.
My only options are Fahrenheit setting giving wind speed in mph and Celsius setting giving wind speed in kmph.
I am using the MSN Weather app that came with Windows 8.1.
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JimmyRopes wrote: I am using the MSN Weather app that came with Windows 8.1.
Me too.
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Because yours does something that mine didn't, I've just uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'm now getting mph with Fahrenheit, but still Beaufort with Centigrade.
I'm in NL, so I use neither mph nor Fahrenheit 
Nor Beaufort 
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I changed my timezone settings to (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna and looked for the weather in Amsterdam and the wind speed was WSW 26 kmph, so that has no effect. It is the same as when I have my timezone set to (UTC+07:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta. 
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I've gone through every Control Panel setting I can think of that might have an effect (even changing the default keyboard and language), but I'm stuck with Beaufort (and now horsepower).
I want to hit it.
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Apparently you have hit it - thrice! 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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My responses weren't showing up before so I entered the same response twice.
It must have been a glitch that is now fixed, or at least not manifesting itself for the time being.
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Actually my response is still not showing up, but I know not to post it again.
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Knocked it even sillier, obviously.
[Redundant messages deleted]
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Another bonus from the reinstall is that now the air pressure around here is 999 horsepower (pic, so it happened[^])
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I get 1002 mb which is believable, 999 hp not so much. 
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It's always mb, isn't it? I know that some scientific types measure atmospheric pressure in pascals, but "out in the wild" I've never heard of anything but mb.
Oh, if I change to Fahrenheit, "Barometer" changes to "29 in" (about a metre, by my calculation).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Oh, if I change to Fahrenheit, "Barometer" changes to "29 in" (about a metre yard, by my calculation).
FTFY
The US has to be different from the rest of the world.
Even the British don't use Imperial Measures any more. 
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JimmyRopes wrote:
Even the British don't use Imperial Measures any more.
Oh yes we do. Distances are miles, Beer is pints - and that's without thinking.
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Sorry I thought only the US used antiquated measurements. Obviously I was mistaken. 
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