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Visitors dodging English gales (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gusts

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'gales' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both types of natural phenomena as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'visitors dodging english' is the wordplay.
'visitors' becomes 'guests' (guest is a kind of visitor).
'dodging' is a deletion indicator.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation as in OED).
'guests' with 'e' removed is 'GUSTS'.

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(Other definitions for gusts that I've seen before include "Blows (of wind)" , "Sudden blasts of wind" , "Bursts of strong wind" .)

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