Wind units: Beaufort scale

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Wind units: Beaufort scale #12

Closed ts-mk closed 9 years ago

ts-mk commented 9 years ago

It would be great if Beaufort scale was added to wind units. I think that many people living close to a sea would appreciate this.

RingOV commented 9 years ago

If I have 4 Beaufort number. How to better display this? 4 B 4 N (number) 4 n 4 Bn

Maybe there are special characters?

ts-mk commented 9 years ago

Are you asking what is the proper symbol for this unit? That would be a good question and I don't have 100% sure answer. Beaufort is an empirical measurement and is probably not as standardized as SI units.

Wikipedia seems to be using "B" as the symbol ("4 B") but on lots of sites like Windfinder they use "bft" as the symbol. So I'd say "4 Bft" or lowercase "4 bft".

RingOV commented 9 years ago

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ts-mk commented 9 years ago

Excellent. Thank you!