On the Météo France app.
Why? Is it because Britannia still rules the waves, and the UK used to measure in knots per hour?
That’s s measure of acceleration, not speed.
I suspect it’s picking up a setting from your phone, it shows km/h for me.
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You sure @_Brian . ? I always thought a knot was a nautical measurement of distance (approx 1.1 miles, 1.8 km). Acceleration is distance/time/time
No, it’s definitely velocity (roughly half a metre per second) so knots per hour would be a measure of acceleration.
Yes, thank you!
They could use the Beaufort scale 
Of course, you’re right, and I was careless.
I’ll check for the Imperial discrepancy, @JohnH .
1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour.
A nautical mile being something to do with length of the arc described by one minute of latitude at the Equator. Or something. Been a long time since I was on a boat out of sight of land.
On both Beaufort and Douglas scales, anything above a 5 = not fun.
8 and above = very, very not fun.
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I thought it was a Persian rug weaving productivity measurement.
And I’m a sailor (or was 
).
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As per @JohnH . The distance measure is the nautical mile. A knot is a measure of speed.
F6 is known as ‘A soldier’s gale’ because they tend to say "Blowin’ a bloody gale, innit!’
Gale Force 8 is +/- 35 mph. We had 35 mph and more for over 24 hrs once, at my boatyard on the Tamar.
In the 7 years I had the place we only had one boat on shore blow over and that was one we told the owner would blow over if he insisted we put it where he hoped to make an early launch in the Spring. The bloke whose boat was the one which took the falling boat was not well pleased with our man.
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I agree - the Météo France app on my UK-based phone shows windspeeds in mph.
I’ve sat in a full cold water survival suit hoping not to hear the order to abandon ship for a few fun hours a few miles of the coast of Norway in a Force 8 when the ship I was on lost steering. Fortunately, the Danish engineers got something rigged that lasted just long enough to get us into the nearest port.
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A couple of my neighbours at the boatyard were the recently retired ed of one of the yottin’ mags and his wife, a nurse. She was an intrepid sailor.
She was retained crew/medic for Chay Bythe’s ‘British Steel Challenge’, a r.t.w. race for 6-8 one-designs, with crews who had saved up the £20/£25k to do the trip.
Part of the training was to get to Plymouth and go out when a storm was forecast - they went out looking for the worst conditions the forecasts could offer. Preparation for the Roaring Forties.
She had a most unfortunate accident. After all that crashing about in the Western Approaches, two days before joining her boat for the run to Cape Town she slipped on wet grass in the garden and broke her ankle! She joined it there.
A very sad event as the fleet was turning for home in the south Atlantic - one of the crew stepped over the side …
The theory went that this experience was such that the idea of rejoining the humdrum, the banalities of ‘normal’ life had become intolerable.
That is why, when mariners are departing they do not say, “We are going to ..” They say "We are bound for … "
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I knew you were bound to say that
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Knot at all!
I can’t fathom it out
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Enough swinging the lead, get back to what you should be doing
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