nor'wester

[nȯr′wes·tər]

(meteorology)

nor'wester

A northwest wind. More often refers to the widespread line squalls occurring in the West Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar regions of India during premonsoon seasons. These occur in the afternoons and the early part of the night and generate very high-speed winds and a large quantity of precipitation. Also spelled northwester.

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Seven people including four members of a family were killed and dozens injured as nor'wester tore through various parts of Netrokona district last night," Towhidul Islam, Netrokona's Kalmakanda sub-district administration chief, told Xinhua.

At least 11 killed as nor'wester lashes parts of Bangladesh

They would never put those wind farms on the Niagara Escarpment, why in hell would you put them on the Nor'Wester Escarpment in Thunder Bay?

A new direction: outspoken new mayor takes reins in Thunder Bay

Ockert also helped found the Nor'Wester Brewing Co.

Karl Ockert accepts post as MBAA Technical Director

I finished my trip having secured a new home in the Nor'wester Mountains on the shores of Lake Superior, new jobs and two clients.

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In becoming a Nor'Wester at the age of 25, Simon Fraser was in good company.

Shadow soldiers: the Frasers: a family legacy: Captain Simon Fraser of the Stormont County militia was wounded and crippled near the St. Lawrence River during the Upper Canadian Rebellion of 1837. This once agile and adept explorer had scaled the Rocky Mountains and forded the wild rivers of Canada's West Coast to establish its first permanent white settlements

The elderly crowd at Silveri's cafe, recently quite inquisitive, skeptical and obstinate, has yet to reach an agreement as to which wind was blowing that day, a nor'wester or sou'wester, a question of primary importance, with obvious influence on the speed of the runner, because if we are dealing with a nor'wester, Elies has the wind in his favor, but, if not, he has the wind in his face.

Provisional report of Elies Santapau's sprint

The Trial has created a profound sensation in the Settlement (The Nor'Wester, 3 March 1863).

Hybrid identities in Canada's Red River Colony

Many of these Loyalists or their sons joined the Nor'wester Fur Company as fur traders.

Sir Guy Carleton and St. Lawrence Branches present: Loyalist Day Trip to Historic Glengarry in Eastern Ontario

With that nor'wester done passed the bulls'll be feeling randy.

Newfoundland moose madness: when a bull gets the wild look in his eye, better to keep your wits about you!

The Nor'Wester, Oakland Pilot and D&D all cross the bar safely and head out.

Questions of safety linger after Taki-Tooo tragedy

Glover came from town in his Baby Austin in a howling nor'wester having evidently stopped en route to relieve himself in a pine wind-break where magpies were in full chorus; he arrived at Curnow's bach, saying over and over again, 'Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle'.

Curnow/Glover, poet/printer: a documentary bibliography, 1933-73

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