On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:
I'm looking at Hanna and Ike on Xastir, but each has a number of circles, red, green, yellow around them. Would someone in the know please give me (and the rest of us land lubbers) the skinny on this, tell us how all this happens.
Those are the three different wind speeds that are reported for each Tropical depression/tropical storm/hurricane. The rings show wx_whole_gale_radius, wx_trop_storm_radius, and wx_hurricane_radius (Xastir's variable names for them). If you see all three circles the smallest one shows the radius of hurricane-force winds, the next larger is the radius of tropical storm winds. If the storm/hurricane doesn't get up to the max speed you may only see two rings. Same for one ring if it doesn't make it to the second scale. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
