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Do You Know Your BFT?

By Gannon Medwick
Friday, February 20, 2009

Keep the great weather questions coming, viewers!  Here’s a recent good one:

I recently purchased a weather station.  What does the weather term “BFT” on the weather station mean?  What is the meaning of the number beside the BFT?

Here was my reply:

Good question!  I’d guess that “BFT” on your station refers to the “Beaufort Wind Scale”, often used as a kind of meteorological short-hand for mariners (0 = calm, 2 = light breeze, 8 = gale, etc.).

Gannon Medwick
Storm Team 9 Meteorologist

For more information on the Beaufort Wind Scale (including a full version of the scale), click here.

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