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A blossary of terms relating to wind.

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A sundowner (folk etymology from Spanish zonda, 'Foehn wind') is an offshore northerly Foehn wind in Santa Barbara, California. It occurs when a region of high pressure is directly north of ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

A squamish (also known as an Arctic outflow wind in winter months) is a strong and often violent wind occurring in many of the fjords, inlets and valleys of British Columbia. Squamishes occur in ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

Southerly is the name of a storm or front of air coming from the south. In the southern hemisphere these can be cold and have bad weather. In Wellington, New Zealand these storms are normally short ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

The storm moves in cyclone (circular) form, carrying clouds of dust and sand, and produces on humans and animals a suffocating effect. The name means "poison wind" and is given because the ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

A shamal [شمال, north] is a northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states (including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait), often strong during the day, but decreasing at night. This ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

The bora (Bosnian: bura, Bulgarian: бора, Croatian: bura, Greek: μπόρα, βοράς, Italian: bora, Slovene: burja, Turkish: bora, Polish: burza) is a northern to north-eastern katabatic wind in the ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

Zonda wind (in Spanish, viento zonda) is a regional term for the foehn wind that often occurs on the eastern slope of the Andes, in Argentina. The Zonda is a dry wind (often carrying dust) which ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Wind

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