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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 tornado
- Whirlwinds spin without a thunderstorm above them
- dust devils
- Sunbaked ground spins air into wandering pillars
- fire version
- Flames can spawn rotating columns called fire whirls
- on mars
- Martian dust devils tower kilometers high in thin air
- naming
- Means literally a wind that whirls
hurricane camille 1969 — category 5 hurricane with 190 mph winds that devastated mississippi and louisiana
dust bowl black blizzards — series of severe dust storms in 1930s great plains that darkened skies at midday