RE: [at-l] Mt Washington winds

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

ANY opening. Even in a tightly sealed house there are some openings. The
"whistling" of the wind going by the window is in fact the noise made by the
air going OUT through the cracks around the edge of the window caused by -
you guessed it - the venturi effect.

> Seriously: What opening is the wind whipping past to cause the
> venturi effect to pull the water out? The plumbing vent?
> One of the new at-l rules:
>
> Explanations should not contain any reference to the Bernoulli
> Principle, Fibinachi Sequence, or the Coriolis effect.

Umm, that's Fibonacci....


Lee I Joe

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