Visitors dodging English gales (5)
I believe the answer is:
gusts
'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'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gusts that I've seen before include "Blows (of wind)" , "Sudden blasts of wind" , "Bursts of strong wind" .)