(a.) Subject to, or characterized by, gusts or squalls; windy; stormy; tempestuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) She lives in Holland Park and welcomes visitors with a gusty wrench of the door and a jubilant "hello".
(2) Fires began erupting on Tuesday amid high heat, extremely low humidity and gusty Santa Ana winds.
(3) Heavy rain is expected to return overnight with winds of up to 50mph bringing a gusty end to the bank holiday weekend.
(4) Firefighters contended with temperatures approaching 100F (38C) and gusty winds as they tried to contain flames fuelled by brush and trees left brittle by drought.
(5) Visibility could be significantly reduced at times with strong and gusty winds likely to accompany snow showers.
(6) A powerful storm system that caused hundreds of accidents across the western US has marched east with predictions of widespread snow, freezing temperatures and gusty winds.
(7) While temperatures this past week have been relatively mild, it’s the gusty winds and the dry conditions that continue to allow wildfires to grow rapidly.
(8) This year’s marathon day dawned gusty, cloudy and wet, but that did not deter the crowds.
(9) Of greater interest is the statistical documentation of temporal associations between short-term increases in daily mortality and certain weather situations corresponding to the transitional periods of turbulent atmosphere with below normal air temperatures, strong gusty winds and a drop in relative humidity, i.e., conditions accompanying the intrusion of a winter cold wave.
(10) It makes a gusty walk along the prom at a British resort seem a bit tame.
(11) Little wonder that on a gusty, wild evening at Wembley there was an undeniable edge of bleakness to the occasion before kick-off, only partly counterbalanced by the genuine warmth among the flags and scarves dotting the walkways as an 80,000 crowd funnelled itself into the stadium.
(12) If your hurricane plans got a little dusty because of the light hurricane season, now is a good time to update them.” Even if Joaquin does not make landfall, forecasters warn that it could produce heavy rains, gusty winds and coastal flooding.
(13) The coal-mining city of Donetsk where pro-Kremlin protesters declared a people's republic last week experienced "gusty wind, possibly the wind of change" caused by a cyclone from the region of Black Sea where the peninsula of Crimea is based, he said.
(14) Forecasters said some rain was possible in both fire areas on Sunday as well as gusty winds.
(15) Gusty winds quickly drove the flames through 800 acres of brushy ridges near Glendora.
(16) Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60[F] below zero [51C below zero].
(17) The National Weather Service warned of “gusty winds” in the north-east – up to 30mph – which it said would cause “wind chills to plummet”.
(18) His audience, beginning to tug their wraps around them against the gusty wind, had had nothing, and they were given little more.
(19) Similarly, we should have taken a lead in wind turbine development, given the gusty meteorological conditions of these islands but again we fluffed the chance.
Squally
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
(a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
(a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) We made use of a laboratory paradigm which was devised to closely represent a common man-machine system process, i.e, maintaining of a road vehicle on a predetermined track when squally wind is blowing from the flank.
(2) By the time the final whistle was due on City's 2-0 win, the rain had abated, leaving squally clouds hovering above fans chanting: "We're Manchester City and we fight to the end."
(3) These are likely to be most frequent across south and west Scotland, north-west England and North Wales and will be accompanied by squally winds along with hail and thunder.
(4) This was such a scrappy, squally game it was obvious the first goal or moment of skill might settle it and so it proved, even though the breakthrough took 80 minutes to arrive.
(5) MacColl said: “Northern and western areas will probably see some thunder and hail and also snow across the hills.” He warned the weather was likely to be squally with strong winds and advised people to keep up to date with the latest forecasts.
(6) The direct sulfonation technique is not intended to identify specific DNA sequences; DNA-DNA hybridization with sulfonated probes has previously been described (P. Lebacq, D. Squalli, M. Duchenne, P. Poulety, and M. Johannes (1988) J. Biochem.