southerly buster

A rare "southerly buster" is known to have blown through Fairy Meadow in the moments before Cheryl Grimmer vanished.

Locals call it a "southerly buster".

A southerly buster this afternoon will help reduce the smoke, especially nearer the coast.

After leaving Sydney Harbor in the sunshine last December and heading south in fast downwind conditions with the early lead, Comanche ran into big trouble: a weather front that Australians call “a southerly buster.”

Well, yes; about the worst is a hot blast which sometimes blows from the interior, known popularly in Sydney as a “brick-fielder” or “southerly buster.”