violent squally wind. Robert Wanlock in Moorland Rhymes (1874) takes a pessimistic view of Scottish weather: There’s three months o’ bluister tae ilk’ ane o’ sun.
Orkney suffered a severe storm in 1952 and another, later storm is compared with it in the Orcadian (2 November 1995): . . . the tempest of early Wednesday morning was a feather in the wind compared to the henhouse-wrecking blowster of January 1952.