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windstorm

[ wind-stawrm ]

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noun

windstorm

/ ˈwɪndˌstɔːm /

windstorm

/ wĭnd′stôrm′ /

A storm with high winds or violent gusts but little or no rain. Winds with speeds up to 241 km (149 mi) per hour have been recorded during windstorms.
See also tornado

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Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; wind ¹, storm

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While some hazards, like windstorms, happen in every region, certain disasters are more common in specific geographic areas.

The pioneer climbed up a lanky Douglas spruce in the middle of a windstorm one December day in 1874 to feel what treetops feel.

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That being said, the sound is big enough that sometimes a big local windstorm can churn out some choppy waves.

These days it’ll be 120 in September and 95 in January, and we’ll see windstorms and wildfires.

Five days before we planned to head home, a windstorm knocked out the power.

Sinai Field Mission: A man with a large push-broom is sweeping sand off a road in a windstorm.

Since it was only a windstorm, there was no rain to wash the air clean of the lethal dust.

Shortly after our return to the farm the wind began again to rise, and another terrific windstorm blew over the land.

A more terrific windstorm than all those I had seen before, arose during the night.

I wished it had been forty or forty-five, for instead of a windstorm we should then have had glorious still weather.

What will become of me in this terrific windstorm, in the midst of these great towering mountains that surround me on every side?

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