Editing Alberta clipper (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Clipper barque Spirit of the Age, PY0633.jpg|thumb|Clipper barque ''Spirit of the Age'' 1854 by [[Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton|T. G. Dutton]]]]

Alberta clippers take their name from [[Alberta]], the province from which they appear to descend, and from [[clipper ship]]s of the 19th century, one of the fastest ships of that time.<ref name="cdnency"/><ref name=douglas>{{cite book |last=Douglas |first=Paul |title=Restless Skies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzMfTLESpcUC&pg=PA50 |publisher=Barnes & Noble Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=0-7607-6113-2 |page=50}}</ref>

The term was coined in the late 1960s by Rheinhart Harms, a meteorologist at the U.S. [[National Weather Service]] Office in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], who noted the rapid speed of these snow-producing storms as they moved across [[the Dakotas]] from Alberta towards the Great Lakes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Harms |first1= Rheinhart |date= November 1970 |title= Snow Forecasting for Southeasern Wisconsin |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1973.9931668|journal=NOAA Technical Memorandum |volume= 26 |issue= NWSTM CR 38 |pages= 250–271 |doi= 10.1080/00431672.1973.9931668|access-date=2021-09-07|url-access= subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Harms|first1= Rheinhart  | date= December 1973 |title= Snow Forecasting for Southeastern Wisconsin |url= https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1973.9931668 |journal= Weatherwise  |volume= 26 |issue=6 |pages=250–271 |doi=10.1080/00431672.1973.9931668 |access-date=2021-09-07|url-access= subscription }}</ref>  Its [[colloquial]] use spread among U.S. and Canadian weather forecasters in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Skilling |first= Tom|date= October 17, 2014 |title= What's the origin of 'Alberta clipper'? |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/weather/ct-wea-1018-asktom-20141017-column.html |work= Chicago Tribune |location= |access-date=2021-09-07}}</ref> It entered the scientific literature around the 1990s. 
   
Storms beginning their southward treks from other Canadian provinces, far less common than clippers, are often still referred to as clippers, or by the fanciful names ''Saskatchewan screamer'', ''Manitoba mauler'' or ''Ontario scari-o''.<ref name = "cdnency" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Swanson |first=Bob |title=Snowstorms or wrestling names? |work=[[USA Today]] |date=December 5, 2007 |url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2007/12/snowstorms-or-w.html |access-date=2008-05-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080804121446/http://blogs.usatoday.com/weather/2007/12/snowstorms-or-w.html |archive-date=August 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Glossary: Alberta Clipper |publisher=[[NOAA]] |url=http://www.crh.noaa.gov/glossary.php?word=Alberta%20clipper |access-date=2007-05-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=John D. |last=Gordon |title=A Comprehensive Winter Weather Forecast Checklist |publisher=[[National Weather Service]] |location=[[Springfield, Missouri]] |url=http://www.weather.gov/sgf/winter_checklist_paper |access-date=2016-01-25 }}</ref>