[AZ-Observing] Re: 5 Mile Meadow

>>  ...presuming the winds
>>  will stay at the predicted 20 to 30 mph for the next few days.
>>  Don't want my scopes out in that.

     For what it's worth, recently I found that the winds at Anderson
Mesa are a fair proxy for generally exposed sites within some
tens of miles:

http://www.lowell.edu/~buie/weather/wxall.html

If there's a hiccup with connectivity at the Mesa end, this page 
may not get updated for a day, but as long as things run smoothly,
then it'll work for now.  On the wind-speed panel of this display, 
the purple wiggly line is the 5-minute average wind speed.
The grey areae shows the general extrema, with instantaneous peaks
showing as 'grass' at the top of this.  Average speeds over 10 mph
is rather windy, similarly 'bottom of the grass' maxima over 20 mph
indicates pretty windy conditions.  For visual observing, 
you don't wanna see the average over 3-4 mph.


\Brian
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