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My Windows 8.1 weather widget reports wind speed in kmph.
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Yup, and sites like this[^] show the weather being reported in mph, but I can't find anything that tells me how to configure it.
This[^], of course, is useless.
I've clicked, right-clicked, pressed, and long-pressed everything visible (and probably a few invisible things, too), but no config screen pops up -- and I don't know if it's even worth looking in the registry editor.
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It is strange that you are getting the Beauford Scale.
My only options are Fahrenheit setting giving wind speed in mph and Celsius setting giving wind speed in kmph.
I am using the MSN Weather app that came with Windows 8.1.
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JimmyRopes wrote: I am using the MSN Weather app that came with Windows 8.1.
Me too.
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Because yours does something that mine didn't, I've just uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'm now getting mph with Fahrenheit, but still Beaufort with Centigrade.
I'm in NL, so I use neither mph nor Fahrenheit 
Nor Beaufort 
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I changed my timezone settings to (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna and looked for the weather in Amsterdam and the wind speed was WSW 26 kmph, so that has no effect. It is the same as when I have my timezone set to (UTC+07:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta. 
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I've gone through every Control Panel setting I can think of that might have an effect (even changing the default keyboard and language), but I'm stuck with Beaufort (and now horsepower).
I want to hit it.
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Apparently you have hit it - thrice! 
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My responses weren't showing up before so I entered the same response twice.
It must have been a glitch that is now fixed, or at least not manifesting itself for the time being.
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Actually my response is still not showing up, but I know not to post it again.
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Knocked it even sillier, obviously.
[Redundant messages deleted]
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Another bonus from the reinstall is that now the air pressure around here is 999 horsepower (pic, so it happened[^])
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I get 1002 mb which is believable, 999 hp not so much. 
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It's always mb, isn't it? I know that some scientific types measure atmospheric pressure in pascals, but "out in the wild" I've never heard of anything but mb.
Oh, if I change to Fahrenheit, "Barometer" changes to "29 in" (about a metre, by my calculation).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Oh, if I change to Fahrenheit, "Barometer" changes to "29 in" (about a metre yard, by my calculation).
FTFY
The US has to be different from the rest of the world.
Even the British don't use Imperial Measures any more. 
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JimmyRopes wrote:
Even the British don't use Imperial Measures any more.
Oh yes we do. Distances are miles, Beer is pints - and that's without thinking.
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Sorry I thought only the US used antiquated measurements. Obviously I was mistaken. 
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Quote: Even the British don't use Imperial Measures any more.
Don't know what you're using as your yardstick for that but here by the 8 furlong horse track, where they recently ran a 2000 guinea race, I'm cruising along at 50 miles an hour sucking on a mint I took from the quarter (pound) I bought at the sweetshop, excessively smug about the miles per gallon I'm getting. Next stop is the cemetery where a friend was recently interred six feet under (his family wanted him cremated but his will wouldn't give an inch on that) after an unfortunate accident on a 3 fathom deep lake. I'll be leaving a dozen lilies on the grave and then going to a memorial do where we'll share a firkin of cider and toast him with a yard of ale before downing a few pints in quiet contemplation.
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Sorry I thought only the US used antiquated measurements. Obviously I was mistaken.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Making the same mistake twice is unforgivable.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Making the same mistake twice is unforgivable.
I hate when that happens. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
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Well said.
You didn't put a foot in it once.
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hp = hectopascals, ie. millibars
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Member 9082365 wrote: hp = hectopascals, ie. millibars
Thank you, I learned a new term today.
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Nice one! I never knew that.
... The problem being that I dare say 99% of people don't know it either, so what lunacy inspired them to use it on a "friendly" app?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: what lunacy inspired them to use it on a "not so friendly" app?
FTFY
Beauford Scale ... Really! 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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modified 2-Mar-15 8:20am.
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