Including metric units in hurriane/tropical storm warnings is natural
and a safety measure, especially for the Carribean. It makes U.S. weather
warnings more universal and understandable since the warnings are also used
heavily outside of the U.S. It avoids misintrepretation.
Good move! I hope the NHC and others keep it up. The U.S. computer
forecast models have used metric internally for decades and the results have
been converted to English units for U.S. consumption.
Regards, Stan Doore, NOAA NWS Retired
On Aug 21, 2011 12:35 PM, "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> An earlier (today) article on Tropical Storm Irene used kph. Now they are
using km/h for wind speed and storm speed. Intentional, or assigned the
article to the new guy? Who knows. I like it.
>
>
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/08/21/tropical.weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
> At 11 a.m. ET, Irene was about 235 miles (375 km) east-southeast of Puerto
Rico, heading west-northwest at about 20 mph (32 km/h), the National
Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Its top winds were 50 mph, (80 km/h),
according to forecasters.
