Finally, the weather turned bad, threatening high winds, poor visibility and snow.

Due to bad winds, the journey across the sea took a long time.

"When there were bad winds, the glass panes would move," he said.

The worst winds to hit the city were of Category 1 or 2 force, he says.

When you get bad winds, the roof does a dance.

This was just bad wind, not likely to get much worse.

That is the worst wind of all, the north wind.

And then the last day came, the day of the worst wind.

"That's like saying a tornado is a bit of a bad wind."

They had been designed to be hardy, and probably would not lose more than a few leaves in the worst winds.