When winds reach a 10 on the Beaufort Wind Scale, it means they're strong enough to damage or uproot trees.

The Beaufort wind scale is a system used to estimate and report wind speeds when no measuring apparatus is available.

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As the wind increases, a wall chart indicates the Beaufort Wind Scale and what could be expected of the winds that are being experienced.

The Beaufort Wind Scale is the traditional method of describing wind speeds and the associated effects of the wind.

The Beaufort Wind Scale rates wind intensity, like the Fujita Scale measures tornados and Saffir-Simpson Scale measures hurricanes.

Mr. Sigrist, who is tsunami program leader for the weather service, said the forecasts were usually based on the Beaufort wind scale, which links expected wave heights to a range of wind speeds.

Life flashing before your eyes can be dated back to Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (who invented the Beaufort wind scale) who wrote in a letter claiming that it happened to him once when he nearly drowned in Portsmouth Harbour in 1795.

A Gale is a type of Wind Description preceded by Calm, Light Air, light Breeze, Gentle Breeze, Moderate Breeze, Fresh Breeze, Strong Breeze and succeeded by Storm,Violent Storm and Hurricane on a Beaufort Wind Scale.

Its full name is the Beaufort Wind Force Scale.

Historically, the Beaufort wind force scale provides an empirical description of wind speed based on observed sea conditions.

Force 12 on the Beaufort wind force scale corresponds to the maximum wind speed of a hurricane.

Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale, although it is a measure of wind speed and not of "force" in the scientific sense of the word.

He investigated the causes of lightning and in 1926 established the Simpson wind force scale, a modification of the Beaufort wind force scale which is the current standard scale used worldwide; still called the Beaufort wind force scale.