If you *fell out of the plane*, you would, on your way down, experience wind speeds maxxing out at 120mph. If you pointed yourself to be *vertical* as you fell, you'd max out at maybe 180mph wind-speeds. This is *more wind force than you'd feel falling out of a plane*.
Somebody on reddit described 150MPH as 2/3 of a football field per second which is both hilarious and very easy to visualize.
Problem with the analogy is that all of us who have ever jumped out of a plane just for fun instinctively think ”yea, I could take that”. 😅
Best I can do with my limited imagination is relating to holding out my hand/arm from a car window while driving along at 60mph. I mean, I have no idea how closely that approximates, but it seems bad.
wow I've never thought of it like that
Thank you for this extremely evocative and terrifying frame of reference
It’s not the air blowing on you, it’s the air throwing objects so hard they impale trees. skypix.photography/impaled-palm/
Had a street sign fly past me outside during Sandy. It was very clear that it would have chopped my head off clean had it hit me. That was probably like ~100-110 mph.
The amount of energy being unleashed by a storm like this defies comprehension.
So peregrine falconing everything at ground level, basically