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Alberta clipper
noun
meteorol (in Canada) an area of low pressure that forms in winter near the Rocky Mountains
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When a similar system starts farther west in the province of Alberta, it’s known as an Alberta clipper.
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We’re watching three Alberta Clipper systems that will impact the Great Lakes and Northeast this week.
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Clipper is short for Alberta Clipper, referring to their Alberta, Canada origin.
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We see it play out every winter, often in the form of an Alberta clipper, which gets its name from the Canadian province where the storm tends to originate.
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He included among them pipeline leaks, the expansion of another pipeline called the Alberta Clipper and shifts in oil markets.
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