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A wind speed scale is a scale that rates a storm or other weather event based on wind speed. Examples include the Beaufort scale and the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. The Fujita scale is sometimes called a wind speed scale, but it is really a damage scale.
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Is a wind scale used to measure wind speed?
This is the Beaufort scale.
A wind scale that classifies wind speed?
scale 1(one)
What does the Beaufort scale rank?
The Beaufort scale is a measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort Wind Force Scale, although it is a measure of wind speed and not of "force" in the scientific sense of the word.
What is used to express wind speed?
You can express or determine the speed of wind using the Beaufort Wind Scale.
What is the scale to measure approximate wind speed?
This is the Beaufort scale.
What does beaufort scale do?
A beaufort scale measures wind speed.
What is a scale used to measure wind speed called?
The Beaufort Scale.
What is a Beaufort scale and how is it used?
Sailors and forecasters use the Beaufort Wind Scale as a way to rate wind speed. The scale ranges from zero for calm to 12 for a hurricane.
What is the name of the scale used to measure wind strength?
Wind strength is normally measured on the empirical Beaufort wind force scale. This scale relates wind speed and the conditions observed on land and at sea, but it measures wind speed rather than force as it is understood scientifically.
What scale relates to wind speed during a hurricane?
The Saffir-Simpson scale.
How do you measure the wind speed on the beaufort scale?
With your skin
What does the Fujita Scale link wind speed to?
Damage.
