downrush
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In the lowest few thousand feet of atmosphere, the difference was very pronounced Monday evening, allowing the downrush of air to accelerate to high speed as it impacted the ground.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021
I had not long to wait, for, as if ordered so for my special accommodation, the mighty downrush of comets with their whirling drapery swung westward and remained aslant for nearly half an hour.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
So naturally the common centers, the poles, cannot accommodate all this downrush of air.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
He held spots to be regions of uprush and of heightened temperature; they believed their obscurity to be due to a downrush of comparatively cool vapours.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The balloon was now descending from a double cause: the weight of moisture suddenly accumulated on its surface, and the very obvious downrush of cold air that accompanied the storm of pelting hail.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon
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