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Old 3rd March 2008 | 18:29
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Surface wind direction in gusts

Just picked up this intersting comment from the Freight Dogs forum.

For the uninitiated, wind bearings usually increase with gust in N. Hemisphere.
The original post was discussing the eventful landing of a 747 at Manchester. Since I'm in the unititiated group can anyone tell me by how much the bearing is likely to change? (No marks for saying it depends on the strength of the gust) For example we had 20kt gusting 30 over the weeekend, would the bearing change be significant?
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