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southerly buster

Noun

southerly buster (plural southerly busters)

(Australia, chiefly, 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, B. C. Peck, Recollections of Sydney, quoted in 1978, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
  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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=N3EdAQAAIAAJ&q=%22southerly+buster%22|%22southerly+busters%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22southerly+buster%22|%22southerly+busters%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=KA2iAacpMS&sig=cxn6ItiKnbMokHj8IJt_yww47pg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E-BZUKWTIKyTiQfa5YDgCA&redir_esc=y 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ftd_p_YQy_0C&pg=PT275&lpg=PT275&dq=%22southerly+buster%22|%22southerly+busters%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=Vj2D9HlGY5&sig=eQWTQW8qAN3ll9Adq34zsAbWMQo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E-BZUKWTIKyTiQfa5YDgCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22southerly%20buster%22|%22southerly%20busters%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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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