BLACK BLIZZARD Definition & Meaning

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black blizzard

[ blak bliz-erd ]

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noun

Meteorology.

a dust storm, specially an extremely severe one, as repeatedly experienced in the Dust Bowl during the 1930s:
That spring, those terrifying black blizzards battered our homes and farms for nearly two weeks.

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Origin of black blizzard¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Nobody knew it yet, but the dust that month, that first “black blizzard,” was merely a harbinger of what would come to be called the Dust Bowl, the second great act in the long tragedy of the 1930s and early 1940s.

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But it was no black blizzard of '36.

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