This true?

[Woodson]

Red Flag Warning
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Area - Ruskin Fl
256 Pm Est Wed Nov 7 2007

...red Flag Warning In Effect For The Nature Coast From Late This
Morning Through The Afternoon For Long Durations Of Low
Humidities And 20 Foot Winds Of 15 Mph Or Higher...
...a Red Flag Warning Is Now In Effect Until 6 Pm Est For Pasco
And Hillsborough Counties...
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/o.con.ktbw.fw.w.0084.000000t0000z-071107t2300z/
Levy-citrus-sumter-hernando-
256 Pm Est Wed Nov 7 2007
...red Flag Warning Remains In Effect Until 6 Pm Est This
Afternoon...
Very Dry Air Is Rapidly Filtering Into The Region From The North
This Morning And Relative Humidities Are Already Falling To Near
35 Percent North Of Levy County. The Red Flag Warning Is Now In
Effect Beginning At 10 Am...and A Few Locations May Drop Below
35 Percent Even Earlier Than That. Winds Will Also Be An Issue
Behind This Cold Front...so Even If We Don`t See Long Durations...
There Is A Good Chance We Will See Winds Greater Than 15 Mph
Along With The Low Relative Humidity Values.
A Red Flag Warning Is Issued When Very Favorable Conditions For
The Spread Of Wildfire Are Occurring Now...or Will Occur Within
24 Hours.
$$

[A-Bomb]

"20 Foot Winds"????

Didn't know they measured winds by feet. Huh?

[Skyway Scott]

?? Beats me.
Maybe they have a tower up in a forest, at 20 feet, and measure winds there?
The winds at 20 feet would be less than 100 feet up, especially if within the canopy of trees.
I imagine winds at 20 feet are a lot less than the clean unobstructed winds at 100 feet up.
Then again, maybe the typist of the report was just wasted.

[Magnum T.I.]

Looks like the work of Al-Kite-Ah, sabotaging the infidels forecasting center.
Or, the NWS team is drinking on the job again...........:p

So, do 20 foot winds produce seas gusting 4-6 knots????
I am SOOOO lost here......

[Skyway Scott]

Wasn't it around this time last year (maybe January) when those fires in Ga. were occurring and we had smoke all the way down here when the wind was from the North?

I remember riding one day at the Undertow and choking on the smoke it was so bad.

[Danimal8199]

More importantly, does this mean we will have some rideable wind? If we shorten our line lengths?

[Woodson]

6 meter lines... F-16 baby... F-16...

That was actually a breaking headline on baynews9 yesterday...

On a side note, where's the freakin; wind?!!

[Woodson]

Wasn't it around this time last year (maybe January) when those fires in Ga. were occurring and we had smoke all the way down here when the wind was from the North?

I remember riding one day at the Undertow and choking on the smoke it was so bad.

You sure that wasn't "Northern Lights" you were choking on..?? <*cough*>

j/k

I moved here in April and remember it raining ash...

I've been watching Extreme's video of the motorized cooler... I HAVE TO HAVE ONE... you think you'd get a DUI riding the cooler down the street?

[Skyway Scott]

Probably.

That thing works awesome on the compact sands of St. Augustine beach or Daytona bch.
Wouldn't work so well on our beach.
It was originally invented (my understanding) for the waterboys to bring out gatorade to players during games and then evolved from there into basically a beer cooler on wheels.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/20ftwind_firewx_exp.html

[Magnum T.I.]

lookin good in the backyard,nice whitecaps right now. Stop by on your DW for a tasty treat or two......
1/2 mi South of the Bilmar

[Magnum T.I.]

Solid wind here, NW 15 or more, with some beautiful scenery