The phrase "a tempest blew" is correct and can be used in written English to describe a strong and violent windstorm.
It is often used in a literary or poetic context. Example: As I stepped outside, a tempest blew, whipping my hair and sending leaves swirling around me.
The tempest blew over; eventually Milan and I made up.
Zac Posen seems ready to party like it is still 2007, before the economic tempest blew the world off course.
BLOOMBERG NEWS Hurricane Irene as a Metaphor for the Markets | Hurricane Irene may be over, but the tempest blowing through the world's financial industry shows no signs of abating, The Wall Street Journal writes, taking a magical-realist slant on the troubles affecting global markets.
It all seemed so ludicrous, Ms. Capra thought, a tempest sure to blow over.
So surely it follows that our first and most important position as this tempest blows more strongly is to maintain the integrity of our democracy; but the second is to work as hard as possible to help and support France and Germany in whatever they decide.
The tempest quickly blew over, with CBS, the sponsor Philip Morris and the public staunchly standing by Ball; the negative publicity failed to dislodge "I Love Lucy" from the No. 1 slot in the ratings).
MUNICH — A tempest in a tea cup has blown through the art world over whether Germany or England invented European porcelain, known as "white gold".
It is as if the speaker had a tempest in her mouth that blows the boundaries between one word and another: "Pin prick cockadoodle do you feel it?" It is not an invented language; rather a repunctuation.
So, yes, it's lamentable that he was to have been Prospero for Michael Powell, only for that Tempest to blow out.
Since late last year, online tempests have blown up over a video of an official in Guangdong Province who assaulted a young girl and bragged that he was above punishment, and a Nanjing city official who was spotted wearing a $14,500 Vacheron Constantin watch and smoking $22-a-pack 22-a-pack 22-a-packe of a lifestyle well beyond his means.
