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Or, the bbc weather apps anememememeoemeoeter mighy be broke :D
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Acccording to the app I'm going to experience 15,000 + MpH winds today. Oh, dear.
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It's ok tomorrow though right? I'm playing golf...
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Nero wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:37 am Acccording to the app I'm going to experience 15,000 + MpH winds today. Oh, dear.
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Even Uranus isn't that windy.
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20,000mph off New Quay. The dolphins won’t like that.
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On the plus side, the wind farms can take the rest of the year off as the pylons will be groaning under the weight of a bumper crop of fresh electricity.
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Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 12:25 pm 20,000mph off New Quay. The dolphins won’t like that.
The dolphins could glide and soar in that.
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I'll pass on getting my paraglider out today.
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dyqik wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 12:50 pm
Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 12:25 pm 20,000mph off New Quay. The dolphins won’t like that.
The dolphins could glide and soar in that.
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This would make an ideal question for What If?
What if this forecast was actually correct?
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Hi Kwazi, how was your first day working on the BBC Weather app?
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Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:25 pm This would make an ideal question for What If?
What if this forecast was actually correct?
We were discussing this at work. Basically similar speeds to orbital re-entry speeds but at sea level not scores of kilometres up. Frictional heating would be interesting. And the debris it picks up could be quite abrasive. And large. Would be very interesting to see what happens over bodies of water.
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Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:25 pm This would make an ideal question for What If?
What if this forecast was actually correct?
There's an XKCD for (nearly) that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5G1QG6cXc&t=1s
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Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:25 pm This would make an ideal question for What If?
What if this forecast was actually correct?
It wasn't windy here. That means that the wind has to go from fast to slow. I bet the air gets bunched up a bit inbetween. That's basically a propagating shockwave. Like with a big explosion.

That's about 90% of what ifs, IRC.

Just pick one at random.
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We actually had red alerts for flooding here.
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monkey wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:32 pm
Grumble wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 2:25 pm This would make an ideal question for What If?
What if this forecast was actually correct?
It wasn't windy here. That means that the wind has to go from fast to slow. I bet the air gets bunched up a bit inbetween. That's basically a propagating shockwave. Like with a big explosion.

That's about 90% of what ifs, IRC.

Just pick one at random.
Well propagating shockwaves are fun, aren’t they?
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Splodey.
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I'm pretty sure that the atmosphere can't generate it's own supersonic flows, however much energy you dump into it over a wide area.
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