Complete Definition of "southerly buster"

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en-noun|sg=southerly buster

  1. (Australia, mainly New South Wales) A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds to replace and relieve hot conditions.

#: 1850: 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. — B. C. Peck, Recollections of Sydney

Category:Australia
Category:Weather

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