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Hello and welcome to Fact of the Day of the Week. For this inaugural episode,

Vaughn regales us with windy facts. It's time for...

Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day.

Today's Fact of the Day. You see me this Fact of the Day ages ago. Completely forgot about it.

Swore it last night. Was like, that's right. So today's Fact of the Day is about windsocks.

Ah, yeah. Windsocks. Yes.

You know that they're on a flagpole and they're orange or the big opening and the opening gets

smaller. It looks like a cone, but it's made of material and it goes orange, white,

orange, white, orange, white. You always see them at the airport. And you're always like,

I know that when it's full, it's facing the way the wind's coming from. The largest opening is

facing towards the wind. The wind is whistling down the sock. And if the sock is fully pointing

out flat at a horizontal, the wind is humming. But did you know that each of the lines indicates

a wind speed? No. So if the wind sock is facing the wind and it gets to the first join and then

after that it goes flop. Flop. Floppy. That means the wind is blowing at five and a half kilometers

an hour. Oh my God. This is, oh my God. This is so clever. I know. And there's a wind sock where

August has been playing netball this season. Yeah. And someone said, oh, it's windy today.

And I locked up and I saw the first one. I was like, well, about five and a half K an hour,

I reckon, because it was only up to the first one. Oh, wow. And were they just like, how do you

know? They were like, what? How do you know that? And then I was like, no, I told them about the

wind sock. And they're like, that's amazing. Something they'll never forget. If it gets up to

the second section of the sock, the wind is at about 11 kilometers an hour. Oh yeah.

If it's, so the first three segments of the wind sock are up and then the last two have dropped

down 16 kilometers an hour. Next one, have a guess, 22. If you're doing the math, it's 22.

Sorry, I was just carrying the one. Yeah, no, that's, that's fully understandable.

So, excuse me. And the top speeder can record before it's just like from here on out. Yep.

It's too windy. It's 28 kilometers an hour is how fast the wind needs to be blowing for the

whole sock to be full. Yeah. Wow. I feel like maybe I didn't know this because all the socks

where I grew up in Wellington, always full. Isn't there a sculpture that's just in a,

just in a wrecked sock in Wellington? Yeah. It doesn't flop. It's just like,

this is our windy way out here. Now I didn't even think about it, but maybe that's also

the art speaking. But like now all like aircraft now would have incredible sensors and it would

just be airports and stuff all have sensors. I've got a wind meter in my weather station.

Really? God, you're such a dad. Dads love a weather station. They love a bit of wind.

Yeah, I want, but I can't figure out how to turn on the notifications. I get a

notification when it rains more than 0.3 mill an hour. Now that's a sort of a heavy-ish shower.

Right. It says, it's raining. So I could be at work and I get a little thing on my phone saying,

it's raining at home. What I want is when I've got to work on how to turn on the

notifications that tells me when it's blustery at home. Why would you need to know that it's

blustery at home? Why do I like to know? Yeah, like look outside the window and just see the rain.

Well, I'm not at home now, so I'm still here, but it could be blustery is all.

But what are you going to do about it if you're blustery at home and you're at work?

Now I just know that it's blustery. What am I going to do if it's raining at home?

I can't stop the rain, but it's nice to know. Well, you've got to try to cover some things up.

Get the clothes, get the washing in. I'm like 30 kilometers from home.

I'm never getting home to get that washing in in time. But if it's also blustery,

maybe if the wind stops, the window would dry up. So today's fact of the day is those windsocks

you see each line on the windsock indicates an increase in speed up to 28 kilometers an hour

wind speed when all sections of the sock are up. Today's fact of the day is another wind fact.

Oh, okay. Yesterday we talked about the wind week. Is it wind week? Is it wind week here at ZM?

Is it wind week here at Fact of the Day? Well, what was Monday's wasn't wind related.

Oh, okay. Well, when wind week does a four day week. Okay. Yeah, we're going to do Monday.

It's lazy and working from home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blow away. Okay, so a shortened wind week

makes my jobs a little bit harder. But yeah, sure. Well, today's fact of the day rolled in

after yesterday's fact of the day about the wind socks at the airport. Yeah, blow in.

How hard the wind is blowing they can blow on and roll tumbled in like a tumbleweed in wind.

And someone said you should look into the fact that this is my one I always say at parties,

but I've never really looked it up. So I could be spreading misinformation that the wind doesn't

really blow it is more accurate to say the wind is being sucked. What? Wind is air moving from

up flint. When does air moving from a high pressure area to a low pressure area? Yeah,

and the low pulls the pressure from the high to try to like make itself not low anymore. Yeah,

it's like gravity kind of yeah, it's pulling it. So technically it's being sucked towards the low

sucked or pulled. Well, sucking is pulling. Yeah, okay, you could say I'm going to pull this drink

up the straw. You could say I'm going to suck the drink up the straw. Okay, yeah, right. So it's

like trying to pull it even itself out and sucking uses vacuum. Well, I guess that is

a different sort of pull though, but pull towards yourself. Yeah, right. So it's more

accurate to say the wind is pulling being pulled rather than blowing because you imagine it's like

being pushed from behind and it's hitting you and you're like, ah, you could say the wind's

being pulled from the south. If it was a southerly, yeah, you could say the south is sucking the wind.

Yeah, there's a fair way the north is sucking the wind from the south pulling it from the south.

Yeah, because you would say it's a it's a southerly if it's coming from the south,

but you would say the north's sucking it. Yeah, that'd be great for the weather.

Hey, we've got some fine weather here in Auckland. However, a little bit of wind,

the north is utterly sucking the wind. Yeah, up from the south, up from the south.

And that's why you're getting the colder temperatures because the wind's been sucked from

the south. Yeah, to the north. Would you grow up, Fletch? So I'm just trying to listen to the fact

of the day. You could say that and absolutely be totally correct. Yeah, okay. Wow. Someone's

saying it's blowing it, blowing it. We can't wait for the wind. No, it's the west that's sucking.

The west is sucking. Okay. Sucking the wind. I can't wait for tomorrow's wind back. Sucky Wellington.

That doesn't work as well as windy Wellington. I might attempt to find some extremities of wind.

Okay. I love Windweek. Yeah, Windweek here, in fact, today is so great. We should have a week

all, we should have week themed weeks more often. Yeah, we should mark this in the calendar for

next year. Windweek is always the last week of August. Last week of August is Windweek.

Every year. Yeah, it is. It sounds like it's going to be harder and harder to do every year.

You don't hear the people at Discovery saying, oh, we can't do Shark Week again. We didn't love it.

We're always getting sweet new Sharks of Sharks going absolutely bananas on like a diving cage

or something. You're going to have a whole year. You can't keep up, mate. Just say. Yeah. I can't

keep my head. I can't keep my head above. What are here? If you can't handle the workload just a

minute. Yeah, look, it's not for everyone. It's tough. I know. I really feel like I'm being overloaded.

I need to, I need some time off. Oh my God, let's get merch for Windweek. Yes, you're going to have

a whole year to prepare for next week's Windweek. We could get someone to come dress the studio with

Windweek. And have strong fans going. I can't wait for Windweek. Yeah, I earn the same. Long

tease, age. Win us next year. No, after this year's Windweek isn't finished. Don't get excited for

next year's Windweek. I know, but I'm already thinking about next Christmas, you know. We could

get a sponsor on board, like someone that does fans. Oh my God, Dyson. The people with the big

big ass fans. No, no, no, no, no. Winter Bines. Oh yeah, yeah, Meridian.

Meridian, Palmerston North. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Windweek brought to you by Palmerston North.

Brought to you by Palmerston North. The city of Wellington. That hill outside Raglan. Yeah, we'll

give you this one for free. Yeah, Palmerston North. Okay, you can have this one. Yeah, but next

year we expect sponsorship and merch for Windweek. Yeah, and lots and so much cash. It'll make your

nose bleed. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is the wind is, it is more, I guess, accurate to say

the wind is being sucked from the wind is being blown.

Welcome to Windweek. Well, Windweek, yeah. Short week, but it's Windweek.

Sponsored by Meridian. No. Didn't we say Palmerston North? Oh, Palmerston North.

And we know there's wind turbines elsewhere, but we just thought Palmerston North needed

a bit of a Spanish debacle. Yeah, they needed a little bit of a leader.

Went on to wind, didn't they? The Spanish women's football team. So that's a double

slip in the face of Palmerston North. No, I mean, it's good for them. It's obviously a great

training. I showed that it was a good spot to be at the start of the tournament, kept them grounded

early. Well, this pilot who put forward this wind fact has also asked for anonymity. Okay,

so I said, well, I'm inventing a pilot alias, Green Squadron leader Gil Worthington. Okay,

okay, right. World War II fighter race. Okay. Saw Germany many times, but never stopped there.

Wow. Incredible. Yeah, so he knows his wins. And still alive. Alive and kicking. Wow. Incredible.

Hey, Vaughn, wind facts from a pilot. Did you know that the jet streams always go from west

to east, which is why flight times will always be longer in one direction.

For example, always longer coming back from America to New Zealand, right?

But shorter coming back from Melbourne. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Correct. Because you're going,

both of those follow his fact, the jet stream goes west to east. Yeah. So Auckland to New York,

eastbound tailwinds will take you 16 hours, 15 minutes. Thereabouts. New York to Auckland,

so the same way back into headwinds and jet streams, 17 and a half hours with the possibility

of adding another one hour, 20, if the jet streams up. Wow. Okay. An hour, 20. Yeah. Adding it over

that long. So it's, you know, a good chunk of it. Auckland to Melbourne, into the headwinds,

four hours, 20 on the way home, three hours, 40. He said, goes on to say, I've seen jet streams over

200 knots, which can increase our ground speed by 30%. Oh, yeah. Like when you're going and you

get there super early, sitting at about 600 knots, which roughly translates into 600 miles an hour,

which is 1000, but they can increase it by more because you've got such a headwind.

Which if you sit in the jet stream that often runs between Melbourne and Auckland,

you can shave 30% off your flight time. That will be us hung over in a few weeks, babes.

Thank God. Thank God. Yeah, the world's got streams gone for you that day. Yeah. Yeah. Then I think

breaking strict RAF World War II fighter pilot. Yep. Protocol sent me a picture. No,

it's in, it's in flight radar. You can see whereabouts the jet streams are. Okay.

They're sitting within flight, within the flight radar. We love that app, don't we?

Yeah. Great app. Great app. So I said, does it burn more fuel heading into the

jet stream? Like going against it? I would say yes, right? But he said only because you're in

the air for longer. Also not because you're fighting against resistance. Not because you're

fighting against, no. Which I, which kind of blew my mind. Yes, same. Because I just thought you

would need to fight it so much harder, but he's like, no, it's the same. We kept basically like

keeping it at the same revs. Yeah. But it just takes so much longer and that's where you burn

more fuel. Right. Over time, not at the moment. Because my, I would just, my instinct would be

to put the foot on the gas. Same. Let's get home. Let's get home. Sure, it burns more gas,

but we'll get there quicker. It's not my gas. Not my gas either. Kind of a sub sub fat. Yep.

A 787 usually burns about 5000 kilograms of fuel, five tons of fuel an hour. God,

I hope they've got a, do these coupons from the supermarket when they fill up? Because you can

get like two cents, four cents. I guess I got six cents a liter. Yeah. Oh, I got a Costco.

Yeah. I've never seen a 787 in Costco. No, I'm too tight. Yeah. Because it's always,

there's always a line. So an extra flight time is around 40 to 50 passengers worth of weight.

Right. Because of the gas, because of the fuel. Yeah. Isn't that fascinating?

Great. What would happen? Maybe I could, I want to try something different tomorrow for the last

wind week. Okay. Yeah. Wind week. But I was just thinking like, what would happen if the jet

streams changed? How would they change? What do you mean? Because it's about the rotation of the

earth. What happened if the worst started spinning with the worst? Mercury and retrograde could do it.

If you were going to Europe for one of these Europe girls, quicker to go with the jet stream.

So you'd, you're best to go through America on the way to Europe and then come back the other way.

And you want a shorter flight? Or is that better for, better for the environment?

Jet lag as well? Oh, dunno. Don't know. I don't know. I don't have an answer to that one.

Maybe a World War II fighter pilot and leader of the Green Squadron. Fantastic.

It's got his name. Gil Worthington, World War II fighter race who saw Germany many times but

never stopped there. Yeah. Could let us know about that. That would be fantastic. Great fact for

wind week. I like this. This is great. I'm loving wind week. Are we going to have a week next week?

Yeah, I hope so. I know it makes it much harder for you to,

but sometimes it doesn't theme a week. Why don't we do specifically search about something?

Why don't we do octopus week next week? You know I love an octopus. I know you do.

We could put up a box and let the listeners, oh yes, that's a good idea. We could do honey

bed. I'm on a bit of a honey bed. You are. Okay, let's do honey bed week next week. Okay,

we could do honey bed. Can we dress up like honey bedges every day? Black and white only.

Yeah. Well, it's kind of what I wear anyway. That works. That works. It's all about the

attitude of the honey bedger. So today's fact of the day is the jet stream always goes west to

east and that's why it's quicker to fly that direction on a plane than against it.

Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day.

Hey.

Now today's fact of the day is about wind because I was challenged to make it wind week on Tuesday.

Yeah, but I actually- It's not a challenge. It's officially wind week.

That's a wind week. Yeah. As dictated by us.

What are our facts? Okay. I could have done a full week.

What is it? What week is next week? Have we decided?

Honey bedger week. Honey bedger week. Okay.

Honey bedger week. Fantastic. I'm excited. Honey bedger, one of the greatest animals we've

ever lived. Yeah. That ever will live. Please, no disrespect to the honey bedger. This time

on the penultimate days before honey bedger week. Save your love and admiration for next week.

Honey bedger week. So you'll remember we've heard multiple times from RAF squadron leader and

fighter race Gil Worthington. Yes. Who is a pilot that flies for an airline that wants to remain

anonymous in both name and employment. Fantastic. So we gave him this fictitious World War II

fighter pilot, Alias. Okay. He then has hit me with some more- Oh my goodness.

But this one's scarwy. Scarwy? This one's scarwy. Is it scarwy?

And if people already have a flight phobia, I feel like this will nothing but aggravate

the situation. Oh, I'm excited. But I don't know if I could talk about the windiest place on earth

and where the highest wind speed has ever been recorded on. Okay. You do that one and then

just hit us with the side scary fact. Right at the end. Because it's wind week. We want all

the wind we can handle. It is wind week. Well, a full wind fact today, I thought I would go

and find the windiest place on earth. Wellington. So Wellington's like in the top five.

Yeah, it is. But it's not the windiest. Chicago. Because they call that the Windy City.

The Windy City. Chicago's not even on there. No, where is it? I remember this because I'm

welly proud. And when someone takes a title from us, I'm always like,

Yeah. It's somewhere in like, like Siberia or- Gale 4 speed winds are recorded 233 days of the

year in Wellington. What? Yeah, bro. Oh my God. I'd call in sycophiles a pilot and they're like,

you go to Wellington today, but like, sorry. I got the black lung. We're going in sideways.

So it always has a high wind. But the Guinness Book of World Record and National Geographic Atlas

have listed Commonwealth Bay and Antarctica as the windiest place on the planet.

Oh, that'd be a cold wind. So regularly over 150 miles an hour. Yeah, but they've got no

apartment buildings to block the wind. Nah. They should pop some of those up. Yeah, they should.

A couple of the walls. Yeah. A couple of hedges. Yeah. Some hedges. A couple of wind blocking

metal carpets. Yeah. Tree. Some fast food outlets. Yeah. The average. Yeah. Yeah. Mall. A Westfields.

A Westfields. You get a Westfields and they're all slow in the wind down. At any given time,

the average wind can be expected to be 50 miles an hour. Oh, wow. So 80 odd kilometers an hour,

which is a hell of a breeze. Yeah. A hell of a breeze. But the fast-

That'd lift up your frock, wouldn't it? It would tear your umbrella inside out.

You'd know about it. Wellington. The highest recorded wind speed on Earth ever was in Australia.

Yeah, it was during a tropical cyclone. Cyclone Olivia, 1996 on Barrow Island in Australia. And as

Cyclone Olivia smashed down on them in 1996, the wind speed got up to 407 kilometers an hour.

That's kilometers an hour. That is insane. What would that even do? What would that even be?

I looked up like your descriptions of wind and what it would be. So just to put it in miles,

because it seems like weirdly, wind is measured in miles more than kilometers around the world,

which I've done my head in. I don't know how long this works. What is it equate to?

1.6 kilometers is one mile. So the speed they reached was 253 miles an hour. Now,

if you look at an estimated wind chart, if you go to 13 to 18 miles an hour is what is known as a

moderate breeze. The wind will move branches, raise a little dust and loose paper off the ground.

Good for the washing. Great for the washing. Let's go up to the boat at number 7, 32 to 38

miles an hour. Whole trees in motion. Inconvenience felt when walking against the wind. Now, the

wind they recorded was 10 times that. The highest one they do is over 75 miles an hour. Severe and

extensive damage. Roofs can be peeled off. Windows can be smashed. Trees are often uprooted. RVs and

small mobile homes will be overturned. And driving automobiles can be pushed off the road. And over

75 miles an hour and the highest wind was 253. Oh my goodness. So nothing would survive. It would

be like an atomic blast. Yeah. It was so strong that they couldn't even validate the reading

for 14 years because they can't be right. Equipment must have been wrong. Must have been. Dad's

weather station must be wrong. Must be wrong. Must be wrong. So yeah, the fastest wind ever to

blow on earth has been recorded as 407 kilometers an hour. And what about the pilot fact?

The pilot fact today about wind. Yeah. One of the reasons they don't fly through thunderstorms

is something called microbursts, which is an extreme. It doesn't sound good. Extreme

downdraft, which can all of a sudden make wind force straight down at over 100 miles an hour.

Which is okay a lot. Which can cause a rate of descent of 6,000 feet a minute. If they were

coming into approach with 1,500 feet off the ground. So two minutes before they actually

touched down and they had a microburst, it would take 15 seconds for that plane to be smashed straight

into the roof. Yeah. Okay. That's cool. That's awesome. That's Skyway. I told you it was Skyway

and you still wanted to hear it. And the fact that even if they get through that, the tailwind

created by when the wind hits the ground and goes out can increase the plane speed by up to 100

miles an hour because it's a tail speed. So you're coming to land all of a sudden. It's just like jet

pack. I told you it was Skyway. I can't wait to head to the airport after this.

Are you flying on the little prop plane down to Christchurch from Toto?

Toto, are you going to Christchurch? No, it'll probably be a big enough plane and I'll be safe

and fine and make it. Yeah, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. Yeah, it's looking like clear skies.

I think it'll be a beautiful view. Oh, yeah, you'll get a beautiful view. But just think about

those downdrafts. Keep them in the back of your mind. Yeah, I will. So today's fact of the day

as the highest wind speed ever recorded was in Australia during a hurricane and it reached

407 kilometres an hour. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day.

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