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WP:DICDEF. This article is linked to from many other pages, so it is an important article. There is a lot of content missing in general, such as examples of gales in history, the type of impact a gale would make on a structure, and the meteorological causes of gales. —
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I'm doing a school project on these and tornadoes, but there's not enough information on gales...
Ghostrider58575
I went ahead and clarified the caption for the November gale photo.. the way it originally read made it sound like the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the 1913 storm.
Crk112 ( talk) 02:44, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I made some considerable changes to the lead paragraph to clarify the distinction between a gale warning and a wind advisory, adding a bit more emphasis to the fact that "gale" is usually a nautical descriptor. I've also removed a lot of the information about the Beaufort scale; the Beaufort scale already has its own article, so giving a full description to it here (including all the parts that have nothing specifically to do with gales) just seems excessive. I feel like we need to add more information to this page, but at the moment I'm not sure what to add or how to organize it. I'll probably come back to this article and do some more cleanup, and possibly add some more information if I can find it. Ironically, the article on gale warning seems more fully developed than this one, so maybe I can use that as a starting point. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Sleddog116 ( talk) 13:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Sleddog116, Billlion, and Seadowns: If you are still around (and Sleddog once asked), my suggestions would be the following:
A gale is a weather phenomenon, tipicaly including strong wind, and used as a descriptor of weather conditions in nautical contexts.
Most of the rest depends on context, and so I propose to
User:Mr. Guye: When I read your suggestions, at first I got an impression that deffinitions are not welcome here. If that is true, I would like to say that this page is a valuable resource for people speaking languages other than English when reading materials about weather and/or sailing. That's why making reader aware of different meanings (including definitions) depending on context seem signifiant to me.
If it was mentioned as that deffinition only is not enough, as I feel now it could be, and that other contents is welcome and needed, then I wholeheartedlly agree. -- Marjan Tomki SI ( talk) 15:17, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
I am not sure if it is just UK usage. How is the word gale used in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia? Perhaps some quotes from newspapers would help. Perhaps only US and Canada use the word storm to generally mean strong winds without necessarily precipitation? Billlion ( talk) 22:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
This article gives 1810 for the origin of the Beaufort Scale but the latter article says 1805. Can anyone clarify? D Anthony Patriarche ( talk) 15:58, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Note that in older writing "gale" also seems to mean any thing down to a gentle breeze. E.g. "Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fsn the glade" (Pope), "that idly flaps in every passing gale" (Goldsmith". Seadowns ( talk) 10:08, 27 May 2019 (UTC)