Meaning of southerly buster | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Australia, New-South-Wales, Western

Examples

“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.”

“We sighted land with a strong gale blowing, and on reaching Fremantle found no less than six ships hard and fast ashore; the harbour, unfortunately, is exposed to the full force of what is known in those parts as a "Southerly Buster," and huge green rollers were tumbling and tossing in all directions.”

“It was a brilliant day; a southerly buster was raging[.]”

“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.”

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