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	Brickfielder - LoveToKnow 1911
		BRICKFIELDER, a term used in Australia for a hot scorching wind blowing from the interior, where the sandy wastes, bare of vegetation in summer, are intensely heated by the sun.
		It is in one sense a healthy wind, as, being exceedingly dry and hot, it destroys many injurious germs of disease.
		The northern brickfielder is almost invariably followed by a strong "southerly buster," cloudy and cool from the ocean.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Brickfielder (196 words)

	Australia and the Goldfields: Chapter III
		Ac anaml y dygwydd fwy na phedair neu bum gwaith yn y flwyddyn: weithiau, ddim ond unwaith neu ddwy, a hyny yn bur llariaidd.
		In the months of October and November the hot winds pay their annual unwelcome visit to these parts, and they leave painful ophthalmia in their wake for several weeks.
		Brickfield Hill was the site of a brickworks in the first half of the nineteenth century.
	oldwelshbooks.net /hlc/aca/aca13.html (2799 words)

	brickfielder - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Brickfielder : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.
	www.onelook.com /?w=brickfielder (170 words)

	Power Boating Canada Magazine - Waterfront Watch
		A brickfielder, sometimes known as a southern buster, is a very cold wind that comes up from the south in Australia.
		Don't forget, of course, that south of Australia is the Antarctic.
		Mitten money is the extra charge demanded by a registered ship's pilot in cold weather, In Australia that includes when a Brickfielder or a Willy Willy is blowing.
	www.powerboating.com /pbc16-2/waterfront16-2.html (792 words)

	02Apr20a
		In a minute the temperature will sink fifty or sixty degrees, and so keenly does the sudden change affect the system, that hot toddy takes the place of the sherry cobbler, and your great-coat is buttoned tightly around you until a fire can be lighted.
		My understanding of the origins of "Brickfielder" is that the southerly change generated clouds of dust from the
		John, the Fowler (1859) quote is interesting given that the change is called a "buster" rather than the Hunt spelling of "burster".
	www.bom.gov.au /bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/jmb/02Apr20a.html (689 words)

	Sydney's fires - a short story
		Rain magic is, of course, still a bit beyond the ken of most European trained thinkers.
		The south west does not experience the high intensity weather conditions of the the south east because north westerly windows like the Brickfielder that bring days of 15% humidity and gusting winds come from over the ocean in the west rather than the desert.
		Burning off is not going to save people from the extreme fire weather which will jump any freeway, climb any mountain, la- la-de-da...
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/permaculture/2001-December/014080.html (1216 words)

	Willy Willies and other Weird Winds - Wild Weather :: ABC North Coast NSW
		These were made in the brickfields near what is now Haymarket.
		When Southerly Busters came up the coast, the change was preceded by strengthening northwesterly winds.
		Brickfielder as a name has now gone but at one stage it had popularity in other parts of the country and any hot, dusty wind was called a Brickfielder.
	www.abc.net.au /northcoast/stories/s1059912.htm (1221 words)

	South Downs Scrabble Club - The many kindred of Aeolus
		BORA – a violent cold North wind that blows from the mountains (usually in the winter) towards the East coast of the Adriatic
		BRICKFIELDER – a hot dry wind in Australia
		BURAN – In central Asia a blizzard blowing from the North, or a summer wind from the North that causes dust storms, also BURA
	website.lineone.net /~habanero/South_Downs_Scrabble_Club/winds.htm (533 words)

	The Land of Gold: Chapter III
		Fe boenydir Sydney a’r amgylchoedd, yn ystod misoedd Hydref a Thachwedd, gan fath o “Sirocco,” neu boethwynt llychlyd, a gyfenwant yn “brickfielder.” Y mae yn dechreu gyda dynesiad mwrllwch amgeuol, a chwythiad awel ysgafn, boeth o’r gogledd.
		During October and November, Sydney and its environs are plagued by a kind of “Sirocco,” or hot, dusty wind, known as the “brickfielder.” It begins with the approach of an enveloping haze, and a hot, light breeze from the north.
		Gradually the darkness increases, and the wind strengthens;— thick fl clouds of burning, penetrating dust rise up, till the open air becomes perfectly unbearable.
	oldwelshbooks.net /hlc/ga/ga08.html (1833 words)

	The Weather Doctor Almanac 1998
		Northern Africa does not, however, have sole claim on uncomfortable desert winds.
		In North America, the dusty desert wind is call a Black Roller; in Argentina, the Zonda; in Australia, the Brickfielder.
		Even fair Hawaii has a dry wind blowing from its arid interior: the Naalehu.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc_1998/98may01.htm (911 words)

	WeatherTalk - Jargon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sometimes in summer a hot, dry and dusty wind from the interior deserts blows south and affects the south coastal areas of Australia, making the people who live there uncomfortable and irritable.
		This wind is called the "brickfielder," presumably because it picks up the red, dusty, brick-like soil of the interior and deposits it over the coastal areas.
		Buys-Ballot's Law, sometimes called the baric wind law, is an empirical law in meteorology that relates the horizontal wind field to the atmospheric pressure pattern.
	www.climate.umn.edu /cawap/mpr/jargon.htm (18632 words)

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		[quote][quote]A wind prevalent in a particular locality was, for our ancestors, distinct and deserving a name of its own: the scorching simoon in southern Asia; the hot, dusty brickfielder of Australia; the migrainous sharav of Israel; or the cold mistral of southern France.[/quote] From 1999 the Canadian Global Almanac[/quote]
		A wind prevalent in a particular locality was, for our ancestors, distinct and deserving a name of its own: the scorching simoon in southern Asia; the hot, dusty brickfielder of Australia; the migrainous sharav of Israel; or the cold mistral of southern France.
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	www.chatarea.com /Sanctum.quote2349259 (114 words)

	J! Archive - Game #4791, aired 2005-06-06
		Born in 1895, this director of a Justice Department bureau served under 8 presidents
		A freed slave's son, Publius Helvius Pertinax was this empire's ruler for nearly 3 months in 193 A.D. You may experience a southerly burster or a brickfielder on this continent
		It gives me the seven-year itch when you call me Norma Jean Baker
	www.j-archive.com /showgame.php?game_id=377 (1033 words)

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