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a column of air that learned to throw a tantrum and made it weather.
means A rapidly rotating column of air, like a small tornado or dust devil, or by extension any fast, chaotic rush of events.
from A plain Germanic compound from 'whirl' (to spin, related to Old Norse 'hvirfla,' to turn round) joined to 'wind' (the moving air, a cousin of Latin 'ventus'). English has glued these two together since the Middle Ages, and the word soon spun off into the figurative — a whirlwind romance, a whirlwind tour — wherever life moves too fast to stand still.
vs tornadoWhirlwinds spin without a thunderstorm above them
dust devilsSunbaked ground spins air into wandering pillars
fire versionFlames can spawn rotating columns called fire whirls
on marsMartian dust devils tower kilometers high in thin air
namingMeans literally a wind that whirls