Beaufort scale

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Fanned by gale-force winds reaching up to eight on the Beaufort scale, the flames have spread rapidly southward, threatening homes, tourist accommodation, and critical infrastructure, including a fuel station.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

On its website, it said its general view was "that damage can occur even when the wind speed is lower than level 10 on the Beaufort scale", which starts at 48 knots, or 55mph.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

Even the Beaufort scale, which measures wind speed, categorises it specifically in relation to its impact on objects.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2017

Two years later, Francis Beaufort, a British naval officer frustrated by the idiosyncratic weather descriptions recorded at sea, proposed twelve standardized gradations of wind strength, from “calm” to “hurricane”: the Beaufort scale.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015

I find the average velocity of the wind for that day to have been forty-five miles per hour, corresponding to a "strong gale" on the Beaufort scale.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir