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[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

Investigators hope it will help them determine how the Palisades fire ignited, the exact point of origin, and how, during a massive windstorm, it raced from the hills to the ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Your trailer got blown away in the windstorm?

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

It was as if Sherm and his grandmother supported themselves while a windstorm blew through the house every morning and—kiss, kiss, love you!—left through the front door.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead




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