The weight of the moving air becomes of. vast importance in a high wind. ' Thus a man standing in a gale at 50 miles an hour will, during one hour, receive the impact of the air •in a coluuin 50 miles long, 6ft high, and about Ift wide, the weight of which is approximately 58 tons. Every minute he has nearly a ton of air hurled at him!
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18671, 21 April 1926, Page 6
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