southerly buster

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AU

词形变化

southerly busters 复数 southerly busters

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds that replaces and relieves hot conditions.

    澳大利亚

    1850, B. C. Peck, Recollections of Sydney, quoted in 1978, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, →ISBN, It is almost a corollary, that the evening of a hot-wind day brings up a ‘southerly buster’, as we have heard the vulgar call it, very chill indeed ... as this wind comes from the southerly region of the Australian Alps.

    1995, Journal of Meteorology, Volume 20, Issues 200-204, page 213, Some southerly busters have roll-clouds or lines of cumulus congestus, but these are uncommon.

    1997, Peter Baines, Kathy McInnes, 24. The southerly buster, Eric Kenneth Webb (editor), Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective, unnumbered page, The southerly buster is a particularly abrupt form of cold front which affects the New South Wales south coastal region, ranging from about Gabo Island to Port Macquarie.