super- + tempest
supertempest (plural supertempests)
- (rare) A very severe tempest.
1907, Jonathan Stagge, The Scarlet Circle[1], Crime Clud, page 218:There would still be tough times ahead for the Fanshawes. But Cape Talisman's supertempest had had a silver lining tucked away after all.
1969, George P. Elliott, An Hour of Last Things and Other Stories[2], Gollancz, →ISBN, page 121:A standard Venus supertempest was on when we got there.
2004, Life on Matagorda Island[3], Texas A & M University Press, →ISBN, page 19:We moved to this barrier island with our eyes open. The bad news was that it lies smack in the storm belt where a hurricane can be expected every four to five years and a supertempest takes aim ever televe years or so.