Weather issus

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Alpha Von Burg

While we are talking about weather here, I know from weather reports wind speeds can go up to 30 knots, perhpas more. And in the game the max wind speed would seem to be only 15 knots.

any opinion to this...

As TorpX said, it's not 15 knots, it's 15 meters/second, which is exactly 29.2 knots. SH3 Commander incorporated the old Big Waves mod, which doubled the size of the waves at any given wind speed, which means that a 15 m/s wind will give waves the equivalent of a 60-knot hurricane. If you choose 'Seasonal' then the waves will be standard height in June and July, 1.25 in April, May, August and September, 1.5 in February, March, October and November, and 2 (actually 1.85) in January and December.

Every day I file a patrol report with my 4-digit grid location, course, speed, wind, Beaufort State and wave height. To vary it up I first get the wind speed from the Watch Officer. I then roll a die:
1 = 2 m/s slower than he said.
2 = 1 m/s slower.
3-4 = Same.
5 = 1 m/s faster than he said.
6 = 2 m/s faster.

I then multiply that number by the Seasonal factor and look up that number on my handy-dandy copy of the Beaufort chart, which gives me sea state and wave height. It also gives a number that matches pretty well with what I see the ocean doing.