northeaster
IPA: nɔrθˈistɝ
noun
- An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually come from the northeast.
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Examples of "northeaster" in Sentences
- Is a "northeaster" a wind blowing to the northeast or from the northeast?
- But as bad as it is, even a northeaster is not as bad as the frozen ice we had.
- His only exhibit, it was open to the public until April 2007, when a northeaster hit Providence and the sub sank.
- Okay, the weather-twit on TV is now talking about that "northeaster" due Sunday night into maybe Tuesday as possible . . . snow.
- The storm, a so-called northeaster which started with heavy rain in Florida last week and showered snow over Washington DC for 12 hours starting late Friday, swept north through Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
- A storm, dubbed a northeaster, started with heavy rain in Florida last week and showered snow over Washington DC for 24 hours starting late Friday, before sweeping north through Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
- ROBERTS: The brutal northeaster is expected to be the worse storm of the season for major cities like Philadelphia and New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. And that's where C.N's Elaine Quijano is live on the National Mall for us this morning.
- A brand-new system is bringing in more wintry weather, so we have a winter weather advisory for southern Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky straight to tomorrow morning because a few more inches of snow is in the forecast for you unrelated to the northeaster.
- Small days, big days, days when a northeaster would blow so hard that if you did make it paddling out through 10 foot waves, you were a mile down the beach by the time you caught your first one ... or to be more precise, for those extreme conditions, when the wave caught you.
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