"Blue Northern" [was "Nor'easter"]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/20/2010 01:53 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>When I was in Texas for grad school some 30 years ago, "blue norther"
>was a fairly standard term for a ferocious winter cold front coming from
>the northwest.

And thus not a nor'easter, which comes from the southwest.

Joel

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