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weather's jump-scare: sky goes from calm to chaos in a single breath
means A squall is a sudden, sharp burst of violent wind, often arriving with rain, snow, or sleet and gone almost as quickly as it came.
from Likely from a Scandinavian source — compare Old Norse 'skvala,' meaning to squeal or cry out — so the word may have started as a noise before it became a weather. That overlap lingers: a 'squall' is also the wail of a baby or the screech of a cat. Wind that howls, child that howls — English heard the same sudden, throat-tearing outburst in both.
- speed rule
- winds must jump 16 knots to qualify
- baby scream
- sailors named it after a wailing infant
- line attack
- squall lines stretch hundreds of miles wide
- white warning
- a pale wall of cloud means run
squall leonhart — protagonist of final fantasy viii, a brooding gunblade-wielding swordsman
squall line — dramatic weather phenomenon along cold fronts producing severe thunderstorms across midwest usa