As the ships turned to the northwest the gale increased and shifted direction so that the ships were facing it head on.
Due to the storm's fast track to the northwest, a gale warning and hurricane watch were issued for the Leeward and northern Windward Islands.
During the late morning hours of July 6, Calvin briefly slowed down before quickly accelerating to the northwest, bringing Calvin's gale force winds 90 mile south-southwest of Acapulco.
It blew half a gale from the northwest the next two days, making exploration with the canoe uninviting, so I took my chain saw and cut up some dead spruces while Ruth worked on carving out a woodcut.
The second storm discovered in contemporary reanalysis was identified based on meteorological reports from a single ship, the Ocean Spray, which experienced a northeast gale shifting to northwest on September 11.
There were more warnings of gales – no surprise, they had already ridden out two – and then came a real shock: "Faroes: wind northerly, severe gale, force nine, backing northwest," the BBC announcer intoned.
The wind had risen even higher and was now on its hind legs, a steady gale out of the northwest, and with the rising wind the snow rose too.
A frontal zone on its northwest side led to an intense gale in that quadrant, which led to the upgrade.
Early the next day, as the storm was intensifying, they upgraded the gale warnings for parts of northwest of Fiji to storm warnings while expanding the warnings to the western and central sides of Viti Levu and the western side of Vanua Levu.
There is the potential for severe gales to develop, particularly across northwest Scotland.
