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nature's tantrum, scored for thunder and rewritten by every poet who survived one
means A violent storm with strong winds, often rain, thunder, or snow — or, figuratively, any furious uproar or emotional outburst.
from From Latin 'tempestas,' meaning a season, a stretch of weather, or a storm — itself rooted in 'tempus,' time. So a tempest is, etymologically, a 'time' gone wild: weather that turned on you. It traveled through Old French 'tempeste' into English, and the storm-sense crowded out the calmer 'season' meaning along the way. The cousin 'temperate' shares that same 'tempus' family — a reminder that the same root gave us both the storm and the mildness it interrupts.
- shakespeare's last
- likely the final play he wrote alone
- teapot version
- big fuss over absolutely nothing, since 1815
- old origin
- from Latin tempestas, meaning season or weather
- tank legacy
- a British WWII fighter plane bore the name
- wind speed
- violent storm just below hurricane on Beaufort scale
the tempest — shakespeare's 1610 play about a sorcerer and shipwreck on a remote island
hurricane sandy — 2012 atlantic tempest that caused $68 billion in damage across the caribbean and us east coast
the perfect storm — 1991 nor'easter that combined three weather systems off massachusetts and inspired the 1997 film