howling winds
Screaming air currents
Howling winds are strong winds that produce a sustained, mournful sound—the noise made when air rushes past obstacles or through narrow spaces.
The phrase appears in weather reports and atmospheric descriptions: The howling winds kept us awake all night.
Howling emphasizes both the intensity and the eerie, almost animal-like quality of the sound.
- gustingBlowing in sudden bursts
- roaringMaking prolonged loud noise
- galeSevere sustained wind
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
whistling · shrieking · blizzard · tempest · wailing · biting · fierce · trees · branches · rattling · shutters · cold · bitter · bone chilling · relentless · wild · moaning · desolate
- wintersnow, ice, cold, frozen, frost
- wind effectstornadoes, hurricanes, sand storms, dust storms, blizzards
- winter literatureA Christmas Carol, The Snow Queen, Doctor Zhivago, Ethan Frome
- stormsstorm, thunderstorm, hurricane, tornado, typhoon
- Gothic castledungeons, towers, turrets, battlements, drawbridges
- sea stormshurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclone, squall
howling windsdead calm
Complete absence of wind
still air · gentle breeze · light breeze · zephyr · balmy breeze
howling windssilence
Total lack of sound
stillness · quiet · hush · soundlessness · dead silence
howl, howls, howled, howler, howlers, wind, windy, windier, windiest