Beaufort scale
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Lioni described Wednesday as a "dark day" for the region and said gusts overnight reached up to 11 on the Beaufort scale - a wind force which is categorised as "violent".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
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
The classification of winds, here stated, is that known as the "Beaufort scale."
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
