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Southerly buster

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  1. 1
    A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds that replaces and relieves hot conditions. Australia, New-South-Wales, Western

    "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."

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