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Thread #113995   Message #2432961
Posted By: Sandy Mc Lean
06-Sep-08 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Storm Thread
Subject: RE: BS: Storm Thread
On Cape Breton's northwest coast they fear no hurricane because they live through several suetes a year. The same is true for the west coast of Newfoundland. The suete is a wind that accelerates through the mountains in a vortex and then from the south-east sweeps to the sea. It becomes a local hurricane with no name. In Newfoundland it used to blow the trains of the track.

The Suete