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BRICKFIELDER

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRICKFIELDER , a See also:

term used in See also:Australia for a hot scorching See also:wind blowing from the interior, where the sandy wastes, See also:bare of vegetation in summer, are intensely heated by the See also:sun. This' hot wind blows strongly, often for several days. at a See also: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 of disease. The See also: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 See also:system over the Australian See also:Bight. These systems frequently extend inland as a narrow V-shaped depression (the See also:apex northward), bringing the winds from the See also:north on their eastern sides and from the See also: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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