A sudden violent squall or storm, especially in the Mediterranean or Atlantic near Spain.
From Spanish borrasca, meaning storm or squall, possibly deriving from Latin burra (wool or roughness), suggesting chaotic, turbulent weather. The term is particularly associated with Mediterranean weather patterns.
Mediterranean sailors developed specific names for different storm patterns based on centuries of observation—borrasca is their term for sudden violent squalls that could catch ships off guard, which is why knowing weather vocabulary was literally a matter of life and death.
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