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unusual facts about gale force



Cyclone Paula

QuikSCAT and SSM/I data indicated that winds of gale force were persisting in northeastern areas of the system.

Folkingham

In 2006 it was damaged when gale force winds blew down two of the four pinnacles, one of which fell onto the roof causing damaging costing more than Ā£100,000 to repair.


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1933 Chesapeakeā€“Potomac hurricane

It emerged from Maine and briefly re-intensified, moving across southern Nova Scotia with gale force winds.

David Chappe

After the sale of Gale Force Chappe continued to write original screenplays, novels, became a re-writer for Hollywood action films, and wrote the production draft of the 1999 film Beowulf.

E. S. Campbell

Campbell recalls the February night in a lifeboat in the Arctic filled with terrified refugees, his efforts to send SOS signals in gale-force winds, and of their miraculous rescue.

Moneygall GAA

The President's entourage braved gale force winds to fly from the Phoenix Park in Dublin in two Chinook and two Black Hawk helicopters.

MV Lady Cutler

On the return voyage she encountered gale force winds and large seas in Bass Strait.

Sintra

In 1493, Christopher Columbus sailing for the Spanish crown, was blown off course by gale force winds and fearing for the survival of his ship, spotted the rock of Sintra.