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windstorm

[wind-stawrm] / ˈwɪndˌstɔrm /


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Detecting long-term trends is challenging as windstorm activity naturally fluctuates from year to year and across decades.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Google said Monday it is partnering with NextEra Energy to reopen the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant that closed five years ago after damage from a windstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Brother Jonathan got caught in a windstorm and struck one of the rocks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

This year, workers will also need to assemble new 15-foot-strands of lights because many were broken during the windstorm that fueled the Eaton fire, Wardlaw said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

On Tuesday, April 5, 1892, at 6:50 A.M., a sudden windstorm demolished the fair’s just-finished pumping station and tore down sixty-five feet of the Illinois State Building.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson