List of local winds

Graphic representation of local winds on world map

The list covers regional and local winds and local weather phenomena including seasonal wind

A-B

  • Abrolhos (Portuguese elisionast of Brazil)
  • Alisio (easterly trade wind in the Caribbean)[1]
  • Alize (northeasterly across central Africa and the Caribbean)
  • Alizé Maritime (wet, fresh northerly wind across west central Africa)[2]
  • Amihan (northeasterly wind across the Philippines)[3]
  • Autan (warm, föhn-type southeasterly wind in the Mediterranean Languedoc region)
  • Barguzin wind (steady, strong wind on Lake Baikal in Russia)
  • Bayamo (violent wind on Cuba's southern coast)
  • Berg (South African katabatic wind)
  • Bise (cold, northern wind in France and northeastern wind in Switzerland)
  • Brickfielder (hot and dry wind in Southern Australia)
  • Böhm (cold, dry wind in Central Europe)
  • Bora (northeasterly from eastern Europe to northeastern Italy)
  • Brisote (the northeast trade wind when it is blowing more strongly than usual, in Cuba)[4]
  • Brookings Effect (off-shore wind on the southwestern Oregon coast, United States)
  • Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra)
  • Burle (north wind which blows in the winter in south-central France)

C-E

  • Caju (stormy gale-force north-westerly in the Atlantic coast of Brazil)
  • Calima (dust-laden south to southeasterly wind blowing in the Saharan Air Layer across the Canary Islands)
  • Carpinteiro (strong southeasterly wind along the southern Atlantic coast of Brazil)
  • Cape Doctor (dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast in summer)
  • Cers (strong, very dry northeasterly wind in the bas-Languedoc region in southern France)
  • Chetco Effect (alternate term for Brookings Effect, off-shore wind on the southwestern Oregon coast, United States)
  • Chinook (warm dry westerly off the Rocky Mountains)
  • Cierzo (cool north/northwesterly wind on Ebro Valley in Spain)
  • Cordonazo, also referred to as el cordonazo de San Francisco or the Lash of St Francis (southerly hurricane winds along the west coast of Mexico)
  • Coromuel (south to south-west wind in the La Paz area of the Baja California peninsula and the Gulf of California)
  • Crivăț (strong, very cold north-easterly wind in Moldavia, Dobruja, and the Bărăgan Plain parts of Romania.)
  • Diablo (hot, dry, offshore wind from the northeast in the San Francisco bay)
  • Elephanta (strong southerly or southeasterly wind on the Malabar coast of India)
  • Etesian (Greek name) or Meltem (Turkish name) (northerly across Greece and Turkey)
  • Euroclydon (a cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind in the Mediterranean)

F-H

I-L

M-N

  • Maestro (cold northerly in the Adriatic sea)
  • Marin (south-easterly from Mediterranean to France)
  • Meltemi μελτέμι (Greek), or meltem (Turkish) (etesian northerly across Greece, Turkey, and Aegean sea)
  • Minuano (southern Brazil)
  • Mistral (cold northerly from central France and the Alps to Mediterranean)
  • Monsoon (mainly south-westerly winds combined with heavy rain in various areas close to the equator)
  • N'aschi (northeastern wind on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and on the Makran coast)
  • Nigeq (a strong wind from the east in Greenland)[9]
  • Norte (strong cold northeasterly wind in Mexico)
  • North wind (northern cold winds blowing from the Gulf of Mexico to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec)
  • Nor'easter (strong storm with winds from the northeast on the north eastern coast of the United States (particularly New England states) and the east coast of Canada (Atlantic Canada))
  • Nor'wester (wind that brings rain to the West Coast, and warm dry winds to the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island, caused by the moist prevailing winds being uplifted over the Southern Alps, often accompanied by a distinctive arched cloud pattern)

O-R

  • Oroshi (颪) (strong katabatic wind across the Kanto Plain)
  • Ostro (southerly wind in the Mediterranean)
  • Pampero (Argentina), very strong wind which blows in the Pampa
  • Papagayo (periodic wind which blows across Nicaragua and Costa Rica and out over the Gulf of Papagayo)
  • Passat (medium strong, constant blowing wind at sea in tropical areas)
  • Piteraq (cold katabatic wind on the Greenlandic east coast)
  • Plough Wind (straight line wind which precedes thunderstorms or thunderstorm clusters)[10]
  • Pommie, or Shut Up (strong gusty wind from North West England that persists for an extended period of time)[11]
  • Poniente, ponente, or ponent (strong west to east wind formed by the wind tunnel effect of the Gibraltar Strait; see Levante for the opposite)
  • Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile)[12]
  • Rashabar (or Rashaba) ("black wind") (a strong wind in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, particularly in Sulaimaniya)[13]
  • Roaring Forties (strong westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere)

S

  • Santa Ana winds (southern California)
  • Santa Lucia winds (a downslope wind affecting southern San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara Counties, California)
  • Sarma (cold strong wind at the western shore of Lake Baikal)
  • Shamal (a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states)
  • Sharqi (seasonal dry, dusty Middle Eastern wind coming from the south and southeast)
  • Simoom (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia)
  • Sirocco (southerly from north Africa to southern Europe)
  • Solano (south to south-easterly wind in the southern sector of Spain)
  • Southerly Buster (rapidly arriving low pressure cell that dramatically cools Sydney, Australia during summer)
  • Sou'wester (strong wind which blows from the southwest, and also a type of waterproof hat designed to protect from wind and rain)[14]
  • Squamish (strong, violent wind occurring in many of the fjords of British Columbia)
  • Sudestada, (strong offshore wind from the Southeast associated with most of the shipwrecks in Uruguay's Rio de la Plata coast)
  • Les Suêtes (western Cape Breton Highlands) high speed southeasterly winds[15]
  • Sukhovey (hot dry wind in the steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts of the Kazakhstan and the Caspian region)
  • Sundowner, (strong offshore wind off the California coast)

T-Z

References

  1. ↑ Lizano, Omar (2007). "Climatología del viento y oleaje frente a las costas de Costa Rica" (PDF). Ciencia y Tecnología. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  2. ↑ Le climat du Senegal (in French)
  3. ↑ English, Fr. Leo James (2004). Tagalog-English Dictionary. Manila: Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. ISBN 971-08-4357-5.
  4. ↑ Forrester, Frank H. (1981). 1001 Questions Answered about the Weather. Courier Corporation. p. 135. ISBN 9780486242187.
  5. ↑ PAGASA Archived 2013-07-05 at WebCite
  6. ↑ Kotliakov, Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich and Komarova, Anna Igorevna (2006) Elsevier's dictionary of geography: in English, French, Spanish and German Elsevier, Boston, page 392, ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6
  7. ↑ Malo, David (1903) Hawaiian antiquities (Moolelo Hawaii) Hawaiian Gazette Company, Honolulu, Hawaii, page 34 OCLC 13734333
  8. ↑ Romanić D. Ćurić M. Jovičić I. Lompar M. 2015. Long-term trends of the ‘Koshava’ wind during the period 1949–2010. International Journal of Climatology 35(2):288-302. DOI:10.1002/joc.3981.
  9. ↑ Stephen Pax Leonard, "Life in Greenland's polar desert", The Observer 2011-10-30
  10. ↑ Government of Canada (2003-05-01), Twister Sisters Environment Canada, archived from the original on 2009-09-24, retrieved 2009-08-05
  11. ↑ Hickey, Raymond (2015) Researching Northern English John Benjamins, Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa, page 84, ISBN 978-90-272-6767-2
  12. ↑ Miller A. World Survey of Climatology. Volume 12. Chapter 3. Climate of Chile.
  13. ↑ Rudloff, Willy (1981) World-climates, with tables of climatic data and practical suggestions Wissensdraftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany, page 242, ISBN 3-8047-0509-X
  14. ↑ "sou'wester". Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  15. ↑ Bowyer, Peter J. and Gray, John M. (1995) Where the wind blows: a guide to marine weather in Atlantic Canada Breakwater, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, ISBN 1-55081-119-3
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