Firenado

[Peter A. McGraw]

Our local (Portland, OR) newscast last night called it a "fire devil" (cf.
"dust devil").

Peter Mc.

--On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:59 AM -0500 Geoff Nathan
<an6993 at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:

> I thought I heard a brand new word this morning on CNN during the 5:50 AM
> newscast when they showed film of a fire whirlwind in Southern California
> that they called (some of the time) a 'firenado'.  I checked Google and
> the word has actually been around a couple of years but the search
> generated only 7-9 hits.  It's not in the ADS-L archives.
>
> Google helpfully asked whether I meant 'Fernando'.
>
> Geoff



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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