Not exact matches
The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously
blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million
kilometers)
per hour.
Most water ripples are much smaller, however, coming from the more common winds that
blow at between three and 11
kilometers per hour.
«The wind was
blowing 30 miles [48
kilometers]
per hour this morning,» says Arnold Boezaart, vice president for grant programs at the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, whose four - story arts complex boasts the first commercial SWIFT attached to a mast jutting from its outside wall.
The same line of storms produced a 135
kilometer (84 mile)
per hour wind gust as the storm squall
blew through town.
When surface winds
blow at speeds of over 15 miles
per hour (24
kilometers), small particles get picked up and bounce across the surface.
Where winds are
blowing east, that motion adds speed to the planet's already high rotational speed of about 43,000
kilometers per hour (27,000 miles
per hour).
It ranges from category 1, for storms with winds of 64 to 82 knots (118 to 152
kilometers per hour (kph)-RRB-, which usually cause only moderate damage, to category 5, for storms with winds
blowing at 137 knots (254 kph) or above, which can cause widespread devastation.