supertempest

plural supertempests

1. rareA very severe tempest.

   A standard Venus supertempest was on when we got there.

   1969, George P. Elliott, An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories, Gollancz, →ISBN, page 121

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   There would still be tough times ahead for the Fanshawes. But Cape Talisman's supertempest had had a silver lining tucked away after all.

   1907, Jonathan Stagge, The Scarlet Circle, Crime Clud, page 218

   We moved to this barrier island with our eyes open. The bad news was that it lies smack in the storm belt where a hurricane can be expected every four to five years and a supertempest takes aim ever televe years or so.

   2004, Life on Matagorda Island, Texas A & M University Press, →ISBN, page 19