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Weather Watchers

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3. Can't say for sure

Tue Apr 5, 2022, 03:58 PM

Apr 2022

Depending on where you live there may be a local or indigenous name. I'm sure having some fun looking....

It could be a macroburst - here's a very nice site about all sorts of damaging winds.
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/wind/types/

Or you could take the thesaurus approach - there's around 100 synonyms for 'Gust of Wind':
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/gust_of_wind.html

It can get pretty windy here where I am; we just call it Bloody Windy!

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