Wind and Tropical Cyclones
Wind alerting is classified into groups of 2 beaufort numbers, beginning at 6-7 for the lowest class of wind advisories. The last group includes 3 beaufort numbers, 14-16. The actual alerts can be categorized into 3 classes: maritime wind warnings, land wind warnings, and tropical cyclone warnings. Advisory-force and gale-force winds will not trigger a separate wind advisory or warning if a Blizzard warning is already in effect. However, as seen with Hurricane Sandy, if widespread high wind warnings are in effect prior to the issuance of a blizzard warning, the high wind warnings may be continued.
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Famous quotes containing the words wind and, wind and/or tropical:
“Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”
—George Borrow (1803–1881)
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)