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black squall

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 331 words | Copyright

black squall, a sudden squall of wind, accompanied by lightning, encountered in the West Indies. It is usually caused by the heated state of the atmosphere near land where the warm expanded air is repelled by a colder medium to leeward and driven back with great force, frequently engendering electrical storms of great intensity.

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