southerly buster

plural southerly busters

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

   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.

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   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.

   1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 197

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

   1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 106

   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.