norther

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Noun
  • Fierce gales hit the Irish Sea in late October 1859.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2025
  • It is highly recommended that mariners without the proper experience seek safe harbor prior to the onset of gale conditions.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With a blow of his whistle, all sorts of words applied: pandemonium, euphoria, mania.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • What’s 42 to 43? Into a black place of great blows from the little mountains from the sea came.
    John Berryman, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ocean keeps coming because of climate change, sea level rise, nor'easters, hurricanes, et cetera.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • That morning, around 6, authorities found O'Keefe on the ground outside the Canton home just before a nor'easter struck the town with 21 inches of snow.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 26 May 2023
Noun
  • First, through a combination of weaker trade winds and westerlies over the tropical Atlantic, La Niña tends to create a more placid atmosphere.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
  • Their modest city saw an influx of evacuees from nearby rural and coastal regions soon after hot westerlies sent walls of flame into a string of towns and villages around New Year's Eve.
    NBC News, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • Critics of the earlier rounds of testing said wind measurements taken at Drake Field airport in Fayetteville were too far away to be valid in Tontitown.
    Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2025
  • The severe thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon to evening and could also bring corridors of strong wind gusts and hail, the largest of which will come over central Texas, the Storm Prediction Center said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 2 May 2025
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“Norther.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/norther. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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