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To: nwctwx

I thought it was 80%, but either way, you're looking at 68-70 MPH winds.


380 posted on 08/31/2006 1:35:21 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie

Based on this new understanding, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center typically now uses a factor of 90 percent to estimate a hurricane’s maximum surface winds from flight-level observations. This means that the winds of some storms in the historical record may have been underestimated.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s966b.htm


383 posted on 08/31/2006 1:38:51 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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