Diablo wind

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hot, dry (downslope) wind from the northeast that occurs in northern and central California, sometimes causing firestorms.
    — […]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]

词形变化

Diablo winds plural

词源

So called because in the San Francisco Bay area the wind blows from the direction of Mount Diablo and the Diablo Range, which ultimately gets its name from Spanish diablo (“devil”), the hot and fiery connotations of which may have reinforced the use of the name for hot, firestorm-causing winds.
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