Strong gales with high winds may be encountered in winter.

Usually, the plants need to be provided with windbreaks to protect them from strong gales.

However, strong gales still swept through much of New England.

Winter tends to produce both the strongest gales and the most frequent periods of calm.

Crossing the English Channel, she met strong gales, lost a mast, and started to leak.

There were strong gales at the end of September 1918 causing difficulties landing the airships returning to the base.

Stronger gales were predicted for Friday.

The Highland Forest left Amsterdam on 18 February and ran into strong gales.

With the troop transports, it was delayed in the bay for several days by strong gales and heavy seas before disembarkation could proceed.

The first day of the race saw several dismastings in strong gales, and several skippers were awarded time for rescuing other racers.

Fierce winds were observed in Cape Henlopen, Delaware, with the strongest gales occurring after the eye passed over the area.

And thrice repress'd his rage; strong gales supplied, And push'd the vessel o'er the swelling tide.

Strong gales on the evening of September 7 caused the Cape Lookout Lightship to be blown loose from her anchorage.

In China, The Xinhua State news reported that two people were killed by walls that were blown over by strong gales.

Strong gales in Bristol on Saturday 14 January 1865 caused considerable damage in the area and over twenty holes were opened in the roofs.

The topmasts could be lowered and replaced from the deck, in the event the sprits were to fail in strong gales and had to be abandoned.

But the sea had not forgotten us, and lay in wait, on the far side of Shoal Cape, armed with strong gales from the east and deluges of rain.

During a quarter or more January days the island experiences wind speeds between 8 and 10 on the Beaufort scale, qualifying as fresh gales, strong gales, or storms.

On 31 December 1982 the Panama-registered, Dutch owned MS Johanna was driven aground on rocks less than 400 m from the lighthouse during strong gales.

A heavy sea made it impossible for the allies, though in a leeward position, to open their lower gunports, and strong gales had driven all three fleets dangerously close to the British coast.

Strong gales in late October 1813 had forced both the inshore squadron and the main battlefleet off their stations, and Émeriau decided to make a sortie to exercise his fleet off Cape Sicié.

The ship had departed London, aiming to meet up with the annual East India fleet on 26 October, but had met with such strong gales during the passage down the English Channel, that she was forced to stay in Cork Harbour for almost a month.

The weather being hazy on the 22d and 23d, with strong gales, the lieutenant did not venture to put to sea; but, on the 24th, though the wind continued to be variable, he got under sail, and plied to the northward within the reef, purposing to go out at a wider opening than that by which he had entered the harbour.