Max Wind Speed on the Playa?

djzip13 · Post by **djzip13** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:10 pm

I'm looking for the max wind speed on the playa. I'm building a major art car and need to do some engineering calculations with the max wind speed.

Its pretty sad, I've been there 6 years and can't really guess the answer. I know the dust storms can be violent, but can't figure out what that calculates in wind speed.

Thanx for the help!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:23 pm

Figure 70 mph summer, 90 mph winter.

djzip13 · Post by **djzip13** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:02 pm

Thanx Bob! I was guessing 50-60 mph, so I wasn't too far off.

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:40 pm

I hate to admit that Bob's right. In 1999 winds were clocked at 72 MPH.

[CDS] topher · Post by **[CDS] topher** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:24 am

[quote="Dr. Pyro"]I hate to admit that Bob's right. In 1999 winds were clocked at 72 MPH.[/quote]

In '99 very early in the week (i.e., VERY few people around), I saw wind blow over porta-potties and watched a couch rolling across the playa during the worst of one particular windstorm.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:08 am

90+ mph in 2003(?).

Daytime (~1pm) on the weekend after the 4th of July.

phil · Post by **phil** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:33 pm

Back in the 90s before it was leave no trace, an acquaintance reported opening a can of soda and holding it shoulder level to pour - the wind was so hard (how hard was it?) that the liquid never hit the ground.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:40 am

*scribbling in notebook*
"Max Windspeed"! Great name. Now just gotta design a costume...

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:26 am

In 2003 or 4, we had winds well over 90 perhaps 100 after the event.
my legs were bleeding from sand particles. the cheap walmart tent was ripped down the middle and a sand dune 2' high almost surrounded it.

AIIZ

MozyBonz · Post by **MozyBonz** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:30 pm

robotland wrote:*scribbling in notebook*
"Max Windspeed"! Great name. Now just gotta design a costume...

Faster than a speeding yahoo.
More powerful than a locomotive art car pulling a house.
Able to leap thunder dome in a single bound.

Look! Over there in that dust storm!
It's a stilt walker. It's a giant flower art car. No! It's Max Windspeed!

Yes, it's Max Windspeed - strange citzen from another state who came to Black Rock with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal shirtcockers. Max Windspeed - who can change the course of charging frat boys, bend steel rebar with his bare hands, and who, disguised as robotland, mild mannered robot builder for the great metropolitan Black Rock City, fights the never ending battle for APOKILIPTIKA Terminal City and the burner Way.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:11 am

))Swoon!((

capjbadger · Post by **capjbadger** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:06 am

Max Windspeed is Robotland?? No! Can't be! Robotland wears glasses, Max Windspeed doesn't! Duh..
Silly people!

Badger

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:08 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:))Swoon!((

ROTFLMAO

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:23 am

90+ mph on the playa this weekend with a MAJOR 2 hour whiteout.

Check out my pics:

Inside the car

Outside the plane

Storm arrival

Another plane shot

timburly · Post by **timburly** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:05 pm

You know my CFI won't let me fly naked.........

MozyBonz · Post by **MozyBonz** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:15 pm

Iso love it. great pics.

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:28 pm

Love that "storm arrival" pic -

Post by **mdmf007** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:32 pm

great vid of my mate Kyle below in a wind storm - locked his ass out of the truck as well.

later

Max Wind Speed on the Playa?

Max Wind Speed on the Playa?

thanx!