Re: conlang servey

En réponse à Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Here the storm was a bit stronger than that :)) . Windforce 11
>
> What does this mean?  How fast do the winds have to be to be
> "windforce
> 11"?
I don't know the average, but we had peaks at 140km/h. IIRC the windforce scale
used is the Beaufort scale, which is not based on wind speed but on its effect
on the environment.

Well, I just found this: http://www.vedur.is/english/wind_eng.html, which
answers very well your question. As you can see there, the scale goes only
until 12 (at this level, nothing can resist the wind). So it gives you a rough
idea of the actual strength of the storm we had.

  And what kind of storm is it?  Is it a tropical storm/hurricane?

Do we have tropical storms or hurricanes in Europe? It was just called a
violent storm by meteorologists here.

Christophe.

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