Brickfielder

The wind originates from the hot deserts in the country's interior.

The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in Southern Australia that develops in the country's deserts in late spring and summer, which heavily raises temperatures in the coastal areas.^[1]

Etymology[]

The term name was recorded in early 19th century, which emanated from the name of Brickfield Hill, a site which was a former brickworks in the centre of Sydney CBD, that was associated with dust.^[2]^[3] A more frequently used term for the winds is a "burster".^[4]

Development[]

It blows to the coastal regions in the south from the outback, reaching the capitals of Perth to the west, Adelaide and Melbourne to south, and Sydney to the east, where the sandy wastes, scanty of vegetation in summer, are intensely heated by the sun. This hot wind blows strongly, often for several days at a time, defying all attempts to keep the dust down, and parching all vegetation. It is in one sense a healthy wind, as, being exceedingly dry and hot, it destroys many injurious germs.^{[citation needed]}

Effects[]

The northern brickfielder is almost invariably followed by a strong "southerly buster," cloudy and cool from the ocean. The two winds are due to the same cause, viz. a cyclonic system over the Australian Bight. These systems frequently extend inland as a narrow V-shaped depression (the apex northward), bringing the winds from the north on their eastern sides and from the south on their western. Hence as the narrow system passes eastward the wind suddenly changes from north to south, and the thermometer has been known to fall 15 °F (−9 °C) in twenty minutes.^[5]

The brickfielder precedes the passage of a frontal zone of a low pressure system passing by, and causes severe dust storms that often last for days and led to its naming as the winds blow up red brick dust.

Notes[]

^ Bursters cause brickfielders on Sydney avvos by The Irish Times. Sep 19, 2000.
^ Brickfielder by Oxford Reference
^ brickfielder in British English by Collins Dictionary
^ Wilkes, G.A. 1978. A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms Fontana. ISBN 0-00-635719-9
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brickfielder". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 521.

References[]

[1] Bursters cause brickfielders on Sydney avvos by The Irish Times. Sep 19, 2000.

[2] Brickfielder by Oxford Reference

[3] rickfielder in British English by Collins Dictionary

[4] Wilkes, G.A. 1978. A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms Fontana. ISBN 0-00-635719-9

[5] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brickfielder". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 521.

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