BRICKFIELDER
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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. This' hot wind blows strongly, often for several days. at a time See Also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus) - TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, 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 of disease. 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 fifteen degrees in twenty minutes.
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