microburst
Example Sentences
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Her cabin was damaged not by the July 14 storm, but by a subsequent microburst 10 days later that ripped through Wonder Valley, an unincorporated community on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
“This was not a microburst — just a broad straight-line wind event that swept over a huge area,” Grigsby said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
“This was not a microburst — just a broad straight-line wind event that swept over a huge area,” Phil Grigsby said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
And maybe in some cosmically meaningless way, it was the kind of microburst of entertainment that could make a time of sequestered disconnection a bit more bearable.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
In Santa Barbara, the volatile weather resulted in a rare microburst, which involves a shaft of cold air plunging to the earth and fanning out in all directions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
