windblown

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By one estimate, the change was projected to increase windblown dust by 40 to 80 tons per day.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

They monitor not only wind speeds and gusts, but the presence of windblown debris and vegetation dryness, using hundreds of weather stations and sensors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Matthew Cuba, the squadron’s cultural resource manager, said the formation of white sand dunes inadvertently buried the site with windblown silt protecting the archaeological remains.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Battered by strengthening winds, with the course increasingly covered in windblown snow, many had barely made it halfway round.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

He looked around for her light and finally saw it fifty yards farther out, bobbing in the windblown whitecaps.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith