522 REPORT—1896. 
Gale of November 1894. 
In the gale of November 13th, 1894, the wind at the Scilly Islands 
blew strongly from the north-west, backing on the following day to the 
south-west with a force of 7. At Holyhead, on the 13th, the wind was 
from the west in the morning with a force of 6, backing to south-west in 
the evening, and blowing with force of 8, and continuing in that quarter 
during the rest of the week. At Belfast and Cork the direction was S.W., 
force 8. On the north-east coast the direction was 8.W., force moderate ; 
further down the coast on 13th the direction was W.N.W., force 5, 
changing to 8.W., force 9 ; in the English Channel, direction 8.W., force 
7 to 10. The barometer was about 0:25 below the mean, the gradient 
between Scilly and Ardrossan being 0:84. The steepest gradient was 
across England, being as between Scilly and Denmark 0°84, the reading being 
29°84 at the former place, and 29-00 at the latter. Full moon was on 
the 13th. With these conditions the tides were affected as follows :— 
At Holyhead the evening tide on the 13th was raised 4 feet above 
the natural height. The wind continued to blow here stiffly from the 
south-west all the week, and the tides were all above the natural height, 
varying from 2 feet 5 inches to 4 feet above. 
At Belfast the tide on the 13th was raised 4 feet 10 inches, and the 
mean increase for five tides was 2 feet 9 inches above. 
At Cork on the 11th the tide was raised 2 feet 8 inches, and on the 
13th 2 feet 5 inches. 
At Liverpool the evening tide of the 13th was raised 3 feet above the 
natural height, and the succeeding tides 1 foot 2 inches and 1 foot 
10 inches. 
At Glasson Dock the evening tide of the 13th was 2 feet 6 inches 
higher, and the succeeding tides 10 inches and 12 inches higher. 
At Leith on the east coast the evening tide of the 14th was raised 
2 feet 3 inches ; and at Sunderland 2 feet 9 inches. 
Lower down the coast the force of the S.W. gale was more felt, 
blowing in the Wash with force of 8. 
At Hull the tides of the 12th were depressed respectively 1 foot 
6 inches and 1 foot ; on the 13th 1 foot 2 inches and 0 foot 2 inches ; and 
on the 14th 1 foot 8 inches and 1 foot 5 inches. 
At Boston the evening tide of the 13th was depressed 1 foot 2 inches, 
and the morning tide of the 14th 3 feet 5 inches, the evening tide being 
raised 1 foot, and the next morning tide 11 inches. 
At Dover, the force and direction of the wind being the same as in the 
Wash, the morning tide was depressed 3 feet 3 inches, the evening tide 
being raised 1 foot 6 inches. 
At Sheerness the tide was depressed 1 foot 6 inches in the evening of 
the 14th, and raised 3 feet 3 inches on the morning of the 15th. At the 
Victoria and Albert Dock the tide was depressed 3 feet 5 inches in the 
evening of the 14th, and raised 1 foot 8 inches on the following morning. 
At the lower end of the English Channel the effect of this south-west 
gale was to raise the tides 2 feet at Portsmouth on the evening of the 
13th, and the two succeeding tides 1 foot 10 inches and 1 foot 6 inches. 
At Devonport the morning tide of the 14th was raised 2 feet 9 inches, 
and the two following tides 1 foot 9 inches and 2 feet 2 inches. 
In the Bristol Channel the tides were raised 1 foot 4 inches at Cardiff, 
and 1 foot 5 inches at Avonmouth. . 
