The sheer force of the gale drove Delaware, Florida, and Manley off station in the night of 30 November.
By 8 May a continuous southerly gale had driven the ship northwards, still locked in the ice, out of McMurdo Sound and into the open Ross Sea.
NRW said waves are expected to overtop the sea front, driven by gale force winds.
Driven by a combination of exceedingly dry fuel and near-gale to gale force winds, the fire developed a dynamic of profuse short range spotting that resulted in rates of fire spread varying between 68 and 153 m min−1 and average fireline intensities up to 88,000 kW m−1.
The boat, which contained Chief Officer Woods and five others, was picked up on the 15th after having driven before gales for five days.
Both played at gale force; so that the doubling-up on bass guitar gave the whole enterprise more muscle, drive, depth and propulsion than the Hawkwind of 1975.
As first mate on a circumnavigating sailboat, the Wanderlust, in 1980, I was at the helm in the middle of the night near Patras, Greece, when a gale arose and we were driven on a shoal.
Gale force medeh winds averaging 70 mph.
Winds approaching gale force affected several islands.
Gale Force does not work.
T9: Gale force is rising, extremely dangerous.
