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by **DTWay** » Tue, 19 Sep 1995 04:00:00

These are a few names for winds at speciifc locations around the world.
Can you add to this list ?

Scirocco
Mistral
Santa Anna

DTWayve windsurfing log USMA5 Dennis Windsrf Assc

1986 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
days 112 133 135 100 132 117 79 81 94 57

Who has the screen name - DTWave ? !

by **Mike Eglingto** » Wed, 20 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Quote:

> These are a few names for winds at speciifc locations around the world.
> Can you add to this list ?

> Scirocco
> Mistral
> Santa Anna

The Cape Doctor: South-Easterly wind in and around Cape Town, South Africa.

Mike

Michael L. Eglington

Tel: (415) 497-2316

by **John Gou** » Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:00:00

The fen (fenn? fenne?). They kept talking about it being the cause of
the lousy skiing in Austria when I was over there scratching for snow
one winter. It's some warm wind that blows out of the south. Probably
makes for good sailing somewhere. JG

by **Jeffrey Bro** » Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Here we go again!!!

How about New England style slang:
Noth' easter
Sou' wester

And many more:
Typhoon
Cyclone
Hurricane
Storm
Gale

zepher
willowah
chinook
thermal

........that guy somewhere has a huge list of all the names of the winds
from around the world....Please post it again!!! Where ever you are! Or
this could go on ..and on...and on.....

Jeff Brown

by **DTWay** » Thu, 21 Sep 1995 04:00:00

These are a few names for winds at "specific" locations around
the world.

Can you add to this list, with a description and location ?

Chubasco
Dusenwind
Sirocco
Santa Ana
Marina
Mistral
Tehuantepecer
Tramontana
The Cape Doctor
The Freemantle Doctor
Levante
Poniente
Ora
Vento
Kossava
Kloof wind
Khamsin
Kaus
Kona

contributors:

Gerald Esschert - Mike Eglington - Dave Evans - R.Jackson
Chris Mancusi - Markus Pfannmueller - Peter Cote - Ted Sommer

by **Serge Rezzoni** » Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Ok, if you want a serious wind list,
you should verify the info just a little bit.

Just because somebody writes something, it doesn't mean it's true.
(this is a general problem with the net and applies to this mssg too ;-)
One easy way would be that at least 2 people name the same wind.

for instance:

Chubasco hmmm, maybe it's ok, but it just means something
like rainfall/rainstorm in Spanish...

Dusenwind how can you expect a Greek/Turkish wind to have
a German name ? Come on ! This is probably the "Meltemi"

Vento completely wrong. It's "Peler"

--

Serge Rezzonico

by **Peter Cot** » Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:00:00

The following is an addition. All these winds come straight from the
American Meteorological Society official glossary of meteorology.

n'aschi - (also spelled nashi) The Arabic name for a northeasterly wind
which occurs in winter on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf.

autan - A strong southeast wind in south-central France, especially in
gascony and the upper Garonne River. Near the pyrennees the autan is
very turbulent. At Toulouse its average speed is 30 mph with gusts of 45
to 50 mph!

avre - Another French wind.

avalanche wind - The rush of air produced in front of an avalanche
(snowboard sailing anyone??).

brickfielder - a squally northerly or northwesteryly win in souther
Australia.

harmattan - A dry dusty E-NE wind wich blows in West Africa espceially
from late November until mid-March.

helm wind - A strong cold northeasterly wind blowing down intothe Eden
valley from the western slope of the Crossfell Range in northern England.

knik wind - local name for a strong southeast wind in the vicinity of
Palmer in the mattanuska valley of Alaska.

levante - The Spanish and most widely used term for an E or NE wind
occurring along the oast and inland from souther France to the Straits of
Gibralter.

That's all I have time for now. There are plenty more in this book.
Maybe I'll have time to add some more.

Pete Cote
Meteorolgical Operations
WSI Corporation

by **Tom von Alt** » Sat, 23 Sep 1995 04:00:00

In rec.windsurfing, John Gould writes:
: The fen (fenn? fenne?). They kept talking about it being the cause of

Foehn if you're umlautless, otherwhise replace the oe with o-umlaut.
_____________

by **IHUG Free Accoun** » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00

I think you guys might be forgetting one of the most famous, and
hard-working winds in the world... the "Levante", resulting from the
clockwise rotation of a high pressure system over Spain, combined with an
anti-clockwise rotating low over Northern Africa.

This is the baby that powers up Tarifa.

15 bonus points for the name of other wind which bleses Tarifa.... Yes
indeed, 'tis the "Feneante" Chances are that is far from the correct
spelling, but it blows in the other direction and is not the strong
one...

by **ecentr** » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Yeah.. The Fremantle Doctor

by **Benjamin lecle** » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Quote:

>Subject: Name that Wind
>Date: 18 Sep 1995 22:07:54 -0400
> These are a few names for winds at speciifc locations around the world.
> Can you add to this list ?
>Scirocco
>Mistral
>Santa Anna

> DTWayve windsurfing log USMA5 Dennis Windsrf Assc

> 1986 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
>days 112 133 135 100 132 117 79 81 94 57

> Who has the screen name - DTWave ? !

Tramontane (like the Mistral in south of France except it's a NW orientation)
Levante and Ponante (at Tarifa, of course)
Libeccio (west orientation in Corsica)

by **Water Authority Libra** » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Quote:

>>The Cape Doctor: South-Easterly wind in and around Cape Town, South
Africa.

>Must be a relative of the Freemantle Doctor, the famous (in Australia
>anyway) seabreeze in Western Australia.

>Dave Evans

Only a Taswegian would misspell Fremantle Doctor!

Our favourite wind around here...

by **BATES Stev** » Tue, 26 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Just one more that I can add to this list:

Bise: the strong north-easterly that blows in Switzerland across Lac Leman
Geneva. Usually blows the same time as the Mistral in the south of France.

Steve