A violent dust storm or whirlwind occurring in Central Asia or Siberia, characterized by blowing snow or sand that reduces visibility dramatically.
From Russian 'bura' (a snowstorm), from Turkic languages, related to Tatar and other Central Asian terms for wind phenomena, reflecting the linguistic heritage of the steppes where such storms are common.
Bura storms can completely erase the landscape, and Arctic explorers relied on traditional Turkic and Russian terminology to distinguish between different deadly wind types—each name encoding generations of survival knowledge.
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