GALE
On the Beaufort Wind Scale, a wind with speeds from 28 to 55 knots (32 to 63 miles per hour).
Gale Warning: The National Weather Service will issue these marine warnings for 1-minute sustained winds between 34 (39 mph or 63 kph) and 47 knots (54 mph or 87 kph) are expected at end of downwind fetch (nearshore or open waters).
Gale Warning
A Gale Warning is a statement which warns of winds averaging from 34 knots and up to 47 knots in coastal waters and high seas areas.
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Wind speeds from 39 to 54 mph (34 to 47 knots).
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A warning of sustained surface winds, or frequent gusts, in the range of 34 knots (39 mph) to 47 knots (54 mph) inclusive, either predicted or occurring, ...
Gale
Winds with a mean speed of between 33 knots and 48 knots, or roughly between 61 km/h and 89 km/h.
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Gale Warning - A warning of sustained surface winds, or frequent gusts, in the range of 34 knots (39 mph) to 47 knots (54 mph) inclusive, either predicted or occurring, and not directly associated with a tropical cyclone.
Gale
Wind with a speed between 34 and 40 knots.
Gale Warning
Sustained wins 39-54 miles an hour (34-47 knots) either predicted or occuring. Note: Gale warnings are not normally issued during tropical cyclones.
Gale - A strong wind. A gale warning is issued for expected winds of 34 to 47 knots (63-87km/h) over the water.
GALE- A wind speed ranging from 39 to 54 mph.
GEM- Forecast model. Global Environmental Multiscale - developed by the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) ...
Gale- Sustained wind speeds from 34 to 47 knots (39 to 54 mph).
Gale Warning- A marine weather warning for gale force winds from a non tropical system.
Gale Warning: A warning of 1-minute sustained surface winds in the range 34 kt (39 mph or 63 km/hr) to 47 kt (54 mph or 87 km/hr) inclusive, either predicted or occurring and not directly associated with tropical cyclones.
line gale"Same as equinoctial storm.
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Complex Gale/Storm: In the National Weather Service High Seas Forecast, an area for which gale/storm force winds are forecast or are occurring, but for which no single center is the principle generator of these winds.
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Twigs break off trees. Moderately high waves of great length.
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GALE: Wind speeds from 39 to 54 mph (34 to 47 knots).
GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
GUST: A brief, sudden increase in wind speed with a fluctuation greater than 10 knots during a period less than 30 seconds.
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Beaufort force 8. A sustained wind speed of 34 to 40 knots. Moderate high waves of greater length; edges of crests begin to break into spindrift; the foam is blown in well-marked streaks along the direction of the wind.
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A wind reaching a mean speed of 39 miles per hour or gusts 49 miles per hour. Described as force 8 on the Beaufort scale.
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GALE FORCED - Sustained winds from 38 to 54 MPH. If a tropical cyclone is involved, the term TROPICAL STORM is used and its upper limit for the winds is extended to 73 MPH.
Whole gale: trees uprooted, some structural damage. Seldom on land.
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It often appears during latter stages in the life cycle of a bow echo Complex Gale/Storm In the high seas and offshore forecasts, ...
Gale warningSustained wind speeds from 34 to 47 knots (39 to 54 mph). Glazea layer or coating of ice that is generally smooth and clear, and forms on exposed objects by the freezing of liquid raindrops.
Developing Gale/StormIn the high seas and offshore forecasts, a headline used in the warnings section to indicate that gale/storm force winds are not now occurring but are expected before the end of the forecast period.
Chocolatero (the chocolate gale) "Chocolatero" is the term used to describe a moderate to strong northern wind in the Gulf region of Mexico.
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Galileo thermometer (Galilean thermometer)
Galveston, Texas (see under The 1900 Storm)
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (in the US)
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southeaster - (Often contracted sou'easter.) A southeasterly wind, particularly a strong wind or gale, for example, the winter southeast storms of the Bay of San Francisco.
CHOCOLATTA NORTH
A West Indian gale that blows from the northwest.
CHROMOSPHERE
A thin layer of relatively transparent gases above the photosphere of the sun. It is observed best during a total eclipse of the sun.
Beaufort Force 8 - Winds 34-40 kt Gale, Moderately high (13 -20 ft) waves of greater length, edges of crests begin to break into spindrift, foam blown in streaks. Whole trees in motion, resistance felt walking against wind.
Nor'easter: Common contraction for northeaster, a northeast wind often blowing at gale or storm speeds. Also refers to a type of storm moving up the North American Atlantic coast which is first felt as a northeast wind and it moves northward.
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