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Diablo winds

Diablo winds is the plural of Diablo wind.

Meaning of Diablo wind

Noun

Diablo wind (plural Diablo winds)

  1. A hot, dry (downslope) wind from the northeast that occurs in northern and central California, sometimes causing firestorms.
    • […]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]1998 02, McCormack's Guides, Incorporated, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, McCormack's Guides, →ISBN

Questions about Diablo winds

What is Diablo winds the plural of?
Diablo winds is the plural of Diablo wind.

Words near Diablo winds in the dictionary

  1. diablery
  2. diables
  3. diablo
  4. Diablo Grande
  5. Diablo wind
  6. Diablo winds
  7. Diabloer
  8. Diabloers
  9. diablos
  10. diablotin
  11. diablotins

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