• Those teams will also be allowed unlimited out-of-season track testing, with no restrictions on the scale and speed of wind-tunnel testing.

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  • That lack of friction, combined with extraordinary sideways grip, means an iceboat can sail six times the speed of the wind.

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  • On the summit of Cairn Gorm, a wind speed of 135mph was recorded at midnight and 114mph on Wednesday morning, according to the CairnGorm Mountain ski centre.

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  • Conventional small wind turbines only work 20 percent to 40 percent of the time due to variations in wind speed, according to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The University of Hong Kong and Motorwave.

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  • The Fujita scale is used to estimate the wind speed of a tornado by the damage the tornado causes.

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  • Wind speed of 82mph recorded in Berry Head in Brixham, south Devon.

    BBC: Rain and high winds battering UK

  • In the event, Cristobal's command of wind speed proves inadequate and the first batch of poems is carried away from the crowd, sending people scurrying through side streets in pursuit of poetry.

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  • Wind power has made significant advances in efficiency and scale in recent years, but wind-turbines are still able to handle only one of many wind-speed categories.

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  • The dull roar of the wind, rushing past at a speed of eight knots, punctuated by the occasional pop of the canvas sail that billows and gusts below my dangling feet.

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  • Using a powerful supercomputer, weather forecasters divide the atmosphere up into an elaborate three-dimensional grid, assign initial values of pressure, wind-speed, humidity and so on, and then apply the laws of physics to see what happens next.

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  • Also, changes in the speed and pressure of the solar wind cause the termination shock to expand, contract and ripple.

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  • This is a mathematical integration of storm wind speed and longevity.

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  • Change takes work and creativity, much like how a roller coaster needs to climb up that first steep hill, but the reward is the thrill of the speed and the wind in your face on the way down.

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  • While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.

    CNN: Firefighters gain ground in California, but death toll rises

  • "They would have advised the crew of the wind direction and speed at various altitudes, " she added.

    BBC: Wiltshire

  • The energy released in the updrafts then interacts with our second ingredient needed for violent tornadoes, the change of the wind direction and speed at you go upward from the ground.

    CNN: The making of a nightmare tornado

  • The assumptions of a 230 mph wind speed and a 1.2 psi rapid pressure decrease in about 1 second along with large and fast missiles is quite a force to design against.

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  • The buoys also contain weather-sensing devices that test for surface temperatures, subsurface temperatures, wind speed, and other indications of changing weather.

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  • Mr Haldane uses the analogy of dogs, such as border collies, which are very reliable catchers of Frisbees without being aware of the complex calculations (wind speed, air resistance, etc) that might be involved.

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  • One of the biggest complaints we've had with the ContourHD line of cameras has been excessive wind noise at speed and, while the 1080p addressed that somewhat by allowing for reduced microphone sensitivity, it's still far more intrusive than on the Hero.

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  • Doing so successfully requires the catcher to weigh a complex array of physical and atmospheric factors, among them wind speed and frisbee rotation.

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  • In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs ... at least with today's technology.

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  • The former president also favors government spending, on infrastructure, student loans, job training, manufacturing, broadband, high-speed rail, and development of alternative energy sources like biofuel, solar and wind.

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  • The wind gains strength from the thermal energy of the ocean, eventually condensing vapors and circulating air fast enough to form high-speed wind and heavy rain.

    CNN: graphic

  • The most persuasive evidence that Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock is its measurement of a sudden increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind, combined with an inferred decrease in its speed.

    BBC: Voyager impression (Nasa)

  • There is already a wind speed meter on the spire which relays information to the cathedral floor where it is checked by members of staff and is a point of interest to visitors.

    BBC: Salisbury Cathedral spire to get digital anemometer

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