Brewer's: Norte

Violent northern gales, which visit the Gulf of Mexico from September to March. In March they attain their maximum force, and then immediately cease. (Spanish, nórte, the north.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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