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Strong Gale

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strong gale [′strȯŋ ′gāl]
(meteorology)
In the Beaufort wind scale, a wind whose speed is from 41 to 47 knots (47 to 54 miles per hour or 76 to 87 kilometers per hour).
Strong Gale 

a wind with a force of nine points on the Beaufort scale and a velocity of 20.8–24.4 m/sec. In order of increasing strength, winds with a force greater than nine points are termed whole gale, storm, or hurricane. A strong gale often causes destruction on land and high waves at sea and is most often associated with tropical and extratropical cyclones.
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We had a strong gale for a considerable time, and eventually dropped Hooja's fleet so far astern that we could no longer discern them.
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They told us they expected to have seen the Bahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east, by a strong gale of wind at NNW.
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