Crosby weather
n.— «“Just where was the severe weather?” Harrington, the native of Dublin, Ireland, asked about the conditions often known as “Crosby Weather.” “It was nearly a summer’s day out there, for God’s sake.”» —“Harrington welcomes the wet” by James Raia Monterey County Herald (California) Feb. 9, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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