In October 1990, the scientists used a cable and winch to exert force equal to hurricane gales, yanking down trees on a 2-acre plot of mixed hardwood forest.
The largest hurricane (in gale diameter) on record to form in the North Atlantic was Hurricane Sandy (2012) with a gale diameter of 1,100 miles.
The hurricane produced gale force winds on Bermuda, though overall, no damage was reported.
While over the western Caribbean, Alma was a large hurricane with gale force winds covering about 200000 square miles.
While moving offshore Atlantic Canada, the former hurricane produced gale force winds, peaking at 52 mph (83 km/h) in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Although most tropical cyclones that become extratropical quickly dissipate or are absorbed by another weather system, they can still retain winds of hurricane or gale force.
For some time, the U.S. has been taking on water as it has neared a hurricane generating gale force winds of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and Islamophobia and tidal waves of economic inequality, demographic shifts, sociocultural strife, institutional decay, and geopolitical instability within the U.S. and abroad.
Definitely during a hurricane, with gale-force winds blowing in from right.
The radio in the hotel shuttle from the airport had warned of hurricane-force gales, possible flooding, thunder, lightning.
But, as they ascended the Titan Dome, they confronted the most brutal conditions yet: hurricane-force gales, and a wind-chill temperature of minus sixty degrees.
