Pineapple Express

English

Proper noun

Pineapple Express

(informal, meteorology) The jetstream and accompanying strong, moist airflow from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands to the west coast of North America.
- 1990 December 1, Hill Williams, “Another Nasty November”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 19 October 2008:
  A warm, wet rainstorm—the notorious "Pineapple Express"—hit Western Washington the weekend before Thanksgiving in 1986.

Hypernyms

atmospheric river

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