"And toss'd with storms, with _flaws_, with wind, with weather."

And Beaumont and Fletcher, in _The Pilgrim_:--

"What _flaws_, and whirles of weather,
Or rather storms, have been aloft these three days."

Shakspeare followed the popular meteorology of his time, as will appear
from the following passage from a little ephemeris then very frequently
reprinted:--

"_De Repentinis Ventis_.

"8. Typhon, Plinio, Vortex, aliis Turbo, et vibratus Ecnephias,
de _nube gelida_ (ut dictum est) abruptum aliquid sæpe numero
secum voluit, ruinamque suam illo pondere aggravat: quem
_repentinum flatum_ à nube prope terram et mare depulsum,
definuerunt quidam, ubi in gyros rotatur, et proxima (ut
monuimus) verrit, suáque vi sursum raptat."--MIZALDUS,
_Ephemeridis Æris Perpetuus: seu Rustica tempestatum
Astrologia_, 12º Lutet. 1584.

I have sometimes thought that Shakspeare may have written:--

"As flaws cong_est_ed in the spring of day."

It is an easy thing to have printed cong_eal_ed for that word, and
_congest_ occurs in _A Lover's Complaint_. Still I think change
unnecessary.