How do you measure the “strength” of wind?

Question

Let’s say (not real math) that 99 mph wind cannot pick up a car, but 100 mph can. Is there a unit of strength? Or calculation for the speed vs what it can do?

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Answer 1

You are really only looking at wind speed, density could theoretically be a factor.

The best way of looking at it is to think “It isn’t *that* the wind is blowing, it is *what* the wind is blowing.”