FIERCE GALES
CONDITIONS IN MID-ATLANTIC [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Oct. 4. The fiercest gale that has been experienced on the direct England to America route for three years has been raging for over 24 hours over a wide area in mid-Atlantic. Wireless messages from ships on the Atlantic crossing have shown that winds of worse than gale force have been blowing from all points of the compass over some 4000 square miles. The CunarJ liner Carmania, from a position 11,000 miles west of Ireland, reported a westerly wind of storm fo r ce which is comparable with the hurricanes which have recently caused much damage in America and the West Indies. The conditions are said to arise from a very deep depression moving slowly eastward, and meteorologists state that it may be the outcome of the recent tornadoes. Experts forecast that the maximum intensity will be reached before the depression reaches the Euro pean coasts.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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