northwester

noun

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as in southwester

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  1. blow
  2. gale
  3. northeaster
  4. wind
Noun
  • The library now needs to build out the new Canadian entrance to code — a blow to a not-for-profit organization that has existed on a limited endowment since 1908.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • New York City's drinking water could eventually absorb a blow if reservoirs supplying a portion of it become vacated due to rising salinity, according to a new report.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of blow
Noun
  • Currently, portions of Northern California and southern Oregon are under gale warnings, high surf warnings and hazardous seas warnings, the NWS said.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Nuclear power plants have increasingly been seen as a carbon pollution-free source of electricity that can fill in for solar and wind farms when the sun sets and gales weaken.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of gale
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
Definition of northeaster
Noun
  • For Lake Tahoe: southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Red flag and high wind warnings were in effect for several states in the Plains and Midwest on Friday.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of wind
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