Gale is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a strong wind, for example: "We could hear the howling of the gale outside our windows."
"It didn't get the strongest winds in the eye wall but it certainly got a period of nearly three hours of sustained gale force winds and wind gusts in the 95 to 100km/h range".
There are 13 classes, as follows: 0 calm, 1 light air, 2 light breeze, 3 gentle breeze, 4 moderate breeze, 5 fresh breeze, 6 strong breeze, 7 near gale, 8 gale, 9 strong gale, 10 storm, 11 violent storm, 12 hurricane.
Ramingining and Milingimbi should expect to see gale force winds over Sunday night and Monday morning, according to the emergency services.
The effect may not always be big enough to spur heavy new investment, but it might be sufficient to keep American factories with high labour costs going in the face of foreign competition.Economists at Citigroup and UBS predict that the shale gale will lift America's GDP growth by half a percentage point a year for the next few years.
Wells in the Pennsylvanian part of the Marcellus produced 895 billion cubic feet (bcf) of gas in the first half of 2012, up from 435bcf in the same period in 2011 and almost nothing as recently as 2008.Well lubricatedDriving through the south-western corner of the state, the benefits of this "shale gale" are easy to see.
"How otherwise would Scotland pay for itself?" he asks, as a gale tries to tear off his office roof.
Tropical cyclone Nathan has made landfall in the Northern Territory as gale-force winds lash the northeast Arnhem Land coast.
After emerging into the Gulf of Carpentaria it intensified to a "high end" category two, and the "destructive core" crossed land between Nhulunbuy and and Cape Shield, with gale-force winds gusting of up to 160km/h.
"They could see a period of six to 12 hours where they're in gale-force or potentially destructive winds, up to 140km winds if it maintains its category two level".
The cyclone, which remains at category two but is expected to increase to a category three on Sunday night, made landfall in the Northern Territory at about 9am Sunday morning, lashing the northeast Arnhem Land coast with gale-force winds.
The cyclone, which has intensified to a "high end" category two, has moved off the coast and the "destructive core" crossed land between Nhulunbuy and and Cape Shield, with gale-force winds of up to 155km/h.
