{"id":340,"date":"2011-01-22T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T06:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-01-22T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T08:31:50","slug":"climbing-weather-forececast-for-el-chalten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/2011\/01\/climbing-weather-forececast-for-el-chalten\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing weather forecast for El Chalten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a fair bit of research for the best weather forecast for El Chalten. Especially in I&#8217;m interested in the winds higher up. After some time I ran into a page called Meteoexploration.com. This page has an overview map, detailed wind levels and bunch of other stuff. I don&#8217;t have any experience of the accuracy of this forecast but it&#8217;s all based on GFS model just like NOAA. And it sure looks pretty. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday they forecasted 200 km\/h winds for the top of Cerro Torre. That&#8217;s 55m\/s. It&#8217;s about the same speed as skydivers have as they&#8217;ve reached their stationary free fall speed&#8230; In comparison, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaufort_scale\" target=\"_blank\">Beaufort scale<\/a> for measuring storms ends at level 12 with 32 m\/s. This would be a hurricane force storm. Cerro Torre has almost twice that wind speed. Now I know why there&#8217;s a mushroom on top of it.<\/p>\n<p> Weather by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteoexploration.com\">meteoexploration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe height=\"325\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" src =\"http:\/\/www.meteoexploration.com\/mountain\/readmpeaks.php?lang=en&#038;peak=CTR\"> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a fair bit of research for the best weather forecast for El Chalten. Especially in I&#8217;m interested in the winds higher up. After some time I ran into a page called Meteoexploration.com. This page has an overview &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/2011\/01\/climbing-weather-forececast-for-el-chalten\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}