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  • noun The condition of being gusty; the presence of gusts of wind

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Examples

  • Add to that, winds from the northwest around 10-15 mph at times with some afternoon gustiness.

    Forecast: Cold keeps a tight grip Brian Jackson 2011

  • Lori's recent publications describe how dunes and dune fields record climate change on Mars, the first evidence for dune migration on another planet, and how atmospheric models can be used to account for wind gustiness and its effects on sand movement.

    SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Lori Fenton -- Sand Seas of the Solar System SETI Institute 2011

  • Typhoon Mirinae, or, Santi as it is named once the storm entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, is a fast moving storm at 29kph it is forcasr to have winds with gustiness up to 185kph when it makes landfall late friday with an estimated 48 hours to pass over Luzon Island.

    Typhoon Santi (Mirimae) : All Souls Day typhoon expected to bring floods and landslides 2009

  • Meanwhile, as typhoon Frank, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kph and gustiness of 150 kph battering inlands, a passenger vessel named M/V Princess of the Stars sunk in Sibuyan Island off the coast of Romblon Province, South of the Philippines.

    Typhoon Frank Batters RP Nomadicasian 2008

  • She even received Oprah's Chutzpah Award for "gustiness."

    Archive 2005-05-01 JDsg 2005

  • She even received Oprah's Chutzpah Award for "gustiness."

    Be Muslim - But Only in Moderation JDsg 2005

  • The trade-winds were blowing freely, but with a lack of gustiness which made progress against them quite rapid and smooth.

    Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

  • American friend what people do on a ship, a place of so much gustiness, if their hair gets blown off into the sea.

    Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

  • The snow which came at 6 lessened the gustiness and brought the ordinary phenomena of a blizzard.

    Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

  • The mornin 'wuz dark, but I peered with young eyes at the floor, an' it seemed to be a-risin 'in curls an' waves — put me in mind o 'Cany Fork when the wind is of a moderate gustiness.

    Dialect Tales 1883

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