|The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/REUTERS|
Floods and fires, seawater surges
and electrical outages, fierce rains
and lashing winds continued to pummel
parts of the Northeast...
From Chicago to the Atlantic Ocean,
through major cities including New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, the impact
of the storm
continued to grow.
in New York and New Jersey
More than 16,000
have been canceled.
Sandy continued to generate wind
gusts up to 80 mph
and dump up to a foot of rain
and as much as 2 feet of snow
in some areas.
in coastal areas woke
to both nasty winds and flash flooding
from record surges
pushed by the winds, high tides
and a full moon.
October 30, 2012
- O.E. weder, from P.Gmc. *wedran (cf. O.S. wedar, O.N. veðr, O.Fris., M.Du., Du. weder, O.H.G. wetar, Ger. Wetter "storm, wind, weather"), from PIE *we-dhro-, "weather," from root *we- "to blow" (see wind (n.)). Spelling with -th- first appeared 15c., though pronunciation may be much older.
Verb sense of "come through safely" is from 1650s; that of "wear away by exposure" is from 1757. Weather-beaten is from 1520s. Under the weather "indisposed" is from 1827. Greek had words for "good weather" (aithria, eudia) and words for "storm" and "winter," but no generic word for "weather" until kairos (lit. "time") began to be used as such in Byzantine times. L. tempestas "weather" (see tempest) also originally meant "time;" and words for "time" also came to mean weather in Irish (aimsir), Serbo-Croatian (vrijeme), Polish (czas), etc.
- ~ Online Etymological Dictionary