windstorm
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The agency has advised residents to stay in the lower levels of their home during the windstorm and to avoid windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
Up die hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
Scientists are more confident that the coastal impacts of windstorms, from storm surges and high waves, will worsen as sea-levels rise.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Those peak gusts are expected to be weaker compared with last week’s historic windstorms, but will still be strong, particularly in Ventura County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
Last week’s windstorms were rare because the winds were extraordinarily widespread and affected areas that don’t typically see strong winds during powerful Santa Ana wind events, Schoenfeld said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
Last week’s windstorms were worsened by a “mountain wave wind,” which occurs when gusts rapidly drop down mountain slopes, then gain strength upon hitting a flat landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
An unusual number of lesser windstorms continued to blow in from the Pacific as well.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
