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Encyclopedia Britannica



BEAUFORT SCALE

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 587 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BEAUFORT SCALE , a
series
  of numbers from o to 12 arranged by
Admiral
  Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857) in 1805, to indicate the strength of the wind from a calm, force o, to a
hurricane
 , force 12, with sailing directions such as " 5, smacks shorten sails " for
coast
  purposes, and " royals, &c., ` full and by ' " for the open sea. An exhaustive report was made in 1906 by the Meteorological
Office
  on the relation between the estimates of wind-force according to Beaufort's scale and the velocities recorded by anemometers belonging to the
office
 , from which the following table is taken:
Beaufort scale. Corresponding wind. Limits of hourly
velocity.
Numbers. Calm Miles per hour.
o Light breeze Under 2
1-3 Moderate wind 212
4-5 Strong wind 1323
6-7
Gale
  24-37
8-9
Storm
  38-55
10-11
Hurricane
  56-75
12 Above 75


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