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I came across a great one though linguistically English: arctic screamer.
What I'm looking for are words a bit more exotic and linguistically non-English, and still recognizable as names of winds/air movements. So while "sea breeze" and "doctor", et al., are legitimate descriptions of winds, they don't really cut it. I'm aware of more obscure names, but am kinda using my discretion when putting them on this list. ;)
Just saw "blue norther" in the paper: "When he was a child, Bill heard his grandmother describe the raging winds of Oklahoma, in the accent of her native North Carolina. The wind is called the blue norther but Bill thought she was saying 'blue moth.'" From the story "‘Blue Moth’ Guides Father in Loss of Son", New York Times, 12/17/06.
slatch?
santa ana,
sea breeze?