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| 5 mph |
Bangs and locks of hair toss gently as thick harp string resonates |
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| 5-10 mph |
The "singing ringing tree" of Crown Point, Burnley Moor
also view this video of the tree shot from a model Parkzone Spitfire with a win-mounted Verbatim video camera; and this multi-part video of the 1957 East German tv show "The Singing Ringing Tree" fairy tale.
The ideal wind speed was found to be 8 km/h or 5 mph. |
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| 5-10 mph |
Golf whirligig in nice rhythmic action |
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| 5-15 mph |
Best wind for flying kites |
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| 5-15 mph |
Glenn Curtiss raced motorcycles on Ormond Beach for speed records, converted bicycles to motorcylces, and invented airplanes around the beginning of the 1900s. One of his vehicles was the "wind wagon", shown here clocking about 15 mph tops in a parking lot |
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| 10-15 mph |
Common hair dryer set on "low" blowing hair |
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| 10-15 mph |
Theo Jansen wind sculpture walking along the beach, eating wind and storing it in stomach bottles for walking later in calmer times, and hunkering down aimed into the wind when the wind gets treacherous. |
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| 10-15 mph |
HYmini portable wind-powered or solar-powered charger for iPod, cell phones, etc. -- put it on your bike handle bars or lay it in the sun
Interview with Arthur Huang, inventor, on NPR
Miniwiz.com green-powered devices |
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| 12-15 mph |
Ocean breeze tossing waves on rocks measured by iPhone app from www.sis.si |
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| 12-15 mph |
Burning yard leaves banned |
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| 12-20 mph |
Nebraska Wind Resource map (click map to enlarge) |
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| 12-20 mph |
Kansas Wind Resource map (click map to enlarge) |
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| 15-20 mph |
"When the wind comes sweeping down the plain ..." - Oklahoma! (only recommended for tone-deaf and hard-of-hearing folks) |
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| 15-20 mph |
Theo Jansen wind sculpture walking along the beach |
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| 16 mph |
Power kite lifts man off the ground |
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| 12-37 mph |
Paraglider speed range, paragliding not safe when wind at jump site is 10-20 mph, Torrey Pines Gliderport |
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| 20 mph |
Disc golfer in 20 mph wind out west -- watch the bushes shaking:
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| 15-30 mph |
Kitesurfing for a person 170 lbs. or so, with high jumps at about 15 mph |
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| 15-30 mph |
West Texas Aermotor windmills for pumping livestock water operate best in this range |
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| 20-25 mph |
Aspen trees in northern Colorado quaking |
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| 20-30 mph |
Strong wind in Nebraska blowing tumbleweed
Captain Beefheart Ice Cream for Crow tumbleweed blow |
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| 30 mph / 16 meters/s |
Typhoon "near gale" measured by iPhone app from www.sis.si |
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| 30 mph |
Lance Armstrong wind tunnel testing Nov 2, 2008 |
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| 25-35 mph |
Speed sailing at over 30 knots: |
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| 40 mph |
Galloping of bridge creates resonance and destroys Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
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| 50-60 mph |
Speed sailing off Namibia 2006 - windsurfing and kitesurfing |
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| 60 mph |
Postmordem of homemade wind turbine after furlings and breaks failed in wind gusting to 60 mph |
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| 60-70 mph |
Santa Ana winds from desert to offshore, Southern California |
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| 65-75 mph |
Denmark wind turbine brakes fail in heavy winds, with cataclysmic results |
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| 85 mph |
Wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Lake Superior, Nov 10, 1975
Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald |
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| 90 mph |
Walking against 90 mph wind |
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| 120 mph |
Indoor skydiving, Las Vegas, around human terminal velocity |
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| 111-130 mph |
Hurricane Wilma (Category 3, sustained winds 111-130 mph, 96-113 kt or 178-209 km/hr), Southern Florida - October 23-24, 2005
Neil Young, Like a Hurricane
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| 131-155 mph |
Hurricane Charley, (Category 4, sustained winds 131-155 mph, 114-135 kt or 210-249 km/hr), Southwest Florida 2004, landfall 13 Aug 2004, with 145 mph winds |
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| 200 mph |
Hurricane Camille (Category 5, sustained winds greater than 155 mph, 135 kt or 249 km/hr), landfall Aug 17, 1969, Biloxi Mississippi, maximum winds of 200 mph, documented in the 1971 television report, A Lady Called Camlle (at right, 27 minutes) |
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| 213 mph |
Mount Washington Observatory, NH, 1:21 pm April 12, 1934, record surface wind speed |
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| 316 mph! |
Oklahoma F5 tornado, fastest winds ever recorded on earth, May 3, 1999, Moore OK near Edmund OK -- 316 mph (509 km/h) recorded at height of 30 m above surface
Jason Castro, Somewhere Over the Raindow |
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