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At what wind speed will salt water "boil"?
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[QUOTE="Capt Greg, post: 6185016, member: 662585"] During hurricane Lenny in 1999, I was anchored on my sailboat in a protected cove in the Virgin Islands. The winds were about 60 mph with gusts to an estimated 80 mph where we were. I observed that during the gusts, the salt water would "boil", that is, totally evaporate the surface into a cloud about 6 to 8 feet thick. I wondered if that point was 74 mph, the speed classifying the wind to hurricane status. Obviously, as the wind increases, the air pressure decreases, causing the evaporation to increase. The air temperature will also change. My question is, does the classification of "hurricane" kick in just as the visual effect of cloud formation on the surface occurs? Since the origin of the word "hurricane" is from the Caribe Indians, I wonder if when the vapor hit the fan, they said, "Look, this is a hurricane". [/QUOTE]
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