Wintry gale

Usage examples of norther.

April, it could have passed for a summer dusk in the real world, except for a small, aimless wind and the lingering chill of the last in a series of wet northers that had plagued the Hill Country winter.

The Grade name was buried with that old man the day the norther blew the lawnchairs over the dead cemetery grass.

The gates came up and they moved again and now they were in the lee of the norther and the wooden-hulled ships of the pitiful and grotesque wartime merchant marine lay against the creosoted pilings of the wooden docks and the scum of the harbor lay along their sides blacker than the creosote of the pilings and foul as an uncleaned sewer.

So, would-be-sailor, how many days do we have left before we miss the spring northers and the southeasters from the Walking Sticks?

A wild wet norther was whooping around the eaves of the Clarendon house, dropping 1901's last large budget of snow until November.