The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weather buoy

Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by thomasahle on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:16AM (#12642918)

Here is the plot on m/s and mbar: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wd...

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by nayuki on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:40AM (#12644157)

It would be better if NOAA used kilopascal (an actual SI unit) instead of millibar, but I guess the conversion is not too bad since 1000 mbar = 100 kPa.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by Declanomous on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:50AM (#12644256)

The NOAA data isn't consumed solely by scientists though. I'm sure millibars were chosen as the metric measurement of pressure because people actually use them, such as mariners.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by nickpeterson on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:02PM (#12645636)

Just the other day a last minute task at work put me under 500 millibars of pressure.

I'll show myself out.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by StavrosK on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:01AM (#12643398)

"Oh wow, air pressure fell to almost zero, a person would suffocate in ther... Wait a minute, the ground unit is 940! This is a 6% difference!"

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by zaroth on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:53AM (#12643778)

Sometimes ground units reflect ground truths, even if the scale doesn't actually hit zero.

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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by thomasahle on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:59PM (#12647809)

Yup, this is also why I like the metric version. With inches of quicksilver it's hard to know where zero is.

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