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Some extratropical cyclones possess a maximum of surface wind speed equatorward of their low centres at the end of the feature known as the back‐bent front, and close to the tip of a characteristic cloud feature known as a cloud head. In the twentieth century, Norwegian meteorologists referred to this feature as ‘the poisonous tail’ of the back‐bent front. In 2004, Browning coined the term sting jet...