Re: Units for wind speed

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

mån 2002-05-20 klockan 13.35 skrev Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > I don't know if the default (for locales not specified above) for metric
> > should be m/s or km/h, though. Perhaps m/s as meters and seconds are
> > base units, but I really don't know what makes the best default here.
> 
> I think km/h is the best default.
> That is, many velocities are measured in km/h eg car speed,
> flight speed, bicycle speed, walking speed, hurricane
> speed.

Isn't hurricane speed just another form of wind speed?


> At least to me it is much easier to relate a wind speed
> to km/h while m/s is less obvious to me

Perhaps so.

As a side note, we have no data about m/s or km/h for da_DK. Do you have
the possibility to provide some?


Christian