Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A northeaster.
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- noun An
extratropical storm , usually found incoastal New England andAtlantic Canada , whose winds usually come from thenortheast .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The unseasonably early winter storm, known as a "nor'easter" due to its north-easterly movement, was being called "Snowtober" and affected up to 60 million people.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James Hall 2011
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The unseasonably early winter storm, known as a "nor'easter" due to its north-easterly movement, was being called "Snowtober" and affected up to 60 million people.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James Hall 2011
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The unseasonably early winter storm, known as a "nor'easter" due to its north-easterly movement, was being called "Snowtober" and affected up to 60 million people.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Allen 2011
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Maryland Weather: Ida limps toward land; could become nor'easter ...
Maryland Weather: Ida limps toward land; could become nor'easter ... admin 2009
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He says Ida's appetite could reorganize off a Atlantic coast after mid-week, taking upon a proportions of a clever nor'easter.
Maryland Weather: Ida limps toward land; could become nor'easter ... admin 2009
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The shortfalls came even after past reports had faulted the company for its responses to large-scale power outages, including those conducted after Hurricane Gloria in 1985, a March 2010 nor'easter and this year's Tropical Storm Irene.
Conn. Utility Misled Public After Storm Shelly Banjo 2011
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This morning, I was alerted to a few tweets worried about a potentially bad low pressure system moving eastward that could become a nor'easter and damage the Eastern Seaboard Sunday into Sunday night.
HUFFPOST HILL - Dems Deploy Payroll Tax Robots Eliot Nelson 2011
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He says Ida's appetite could reorganize off a Atlantic coast after mid-week, taking upon a proportions of a clever nor'easter.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Another nor'easter is coming tomorrow, threatening to dump more snow on a winter-weary swath of the Northeast.
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Hot Board: Maryland Weather: Ida limps toward land; could become nor'easter ... skip to main | skip to sidebar
Maryland Weather: Ida limps toward land; could become nor'easter ... admin 2009
chained_bear commented on the word nor'easter
What is raging right outside my window right now.
September 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word nor'easter
Neat word. Not nice to be in one, though. Make sure you gluppit the prawling strangles, you hear?
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word nor'easter
"This colloquialism denotes a storm that brings high winds and rain or snow to the upper Atlantic Coast. The storm is so named because although the cyclonic storm itself moves northeasterly up the coast, the inland winds on its west side blow from out of the northeast.
"While the folksy pronunciation might evoke images of a Yankee seafarer in some, the contracted term is neither authentic nor accurate. New Englanders tend to drop their 'r' sounds and are more likely to pronounce 'northeaster' as /naw-THEES-tuh/. As Boston Globe wordsmith Jan Freeman noted, 'The facts, however, have not slowed the advance of "nor'easter." Even in print, where it's probably less common than in speech, it has practically routed "northeaster" in the past quarter-century or so. . . . It would take a mighty wind, at this point, to blow "nor'easter" back into oblivion.'" --Garner's Modern American Usage
And this New Englander finds herself pronouncing it /naw-EES-tuh/.
September 9, 2009
alexz commented on the word nor'easter
"A nor'easter forms when warm, moist air travelling north with the gulf stream collides with cold air moving down from Canada, resulting in snow and rain." - NASA video NASA Catches April 1 Nor’easter over New England
April 11, 2017