Winds with Names


Sirocco Winds over the Adriatic Sea

More than just a bunch of hot air

Our article about the Chinook winds discussed an unusual meteorological phenomenon, but one thing it didn’t touch on was the peculiarity of a wind having a name in the first place. That strikes me as odd, like a temperature or a humidity level or a barometric pressure having a name. I mean, I get it: we give hurricanes and certain other storms names, and that serves a useful purpose, but just calling the movement of air in a certain way at a certain time by a proper noun seems weird.

Be that as it may, we were able to find quite a few other examples of winds that have names. Here’s a representative sampling—by no means a complete list:

Bora: A cold, north-eastern katabatic wind that blows along the east coast of the the Adriatic Sea (including Greece, Russia, and Turkey).Brickfielder: A hot and dry summer wind in Southern Australia.Cape Doctor: A dry south-easterly wind that blows over part of Western Cape Province in South Africa, so named because of its apparent effect of clearing away pollution.Chinook: A warm winter wind in the western United States and Canada.Fremantle Doctor: A cool summer sea breeze on the coast of Western Australia.Halny: A strong, warm föhn wind storm in the Carpathian mountains of Poland and Slovakia.Khamsin: A hot, sandy wind in Egypt.Mistral: A cold, forceful wind that blows in southern France and into the Mediterranean Sea.Santa Ana: A hot, dry wind, usually in autumn, in southern California and northern Mexico.Sirocco: A powerful wind that blows from the Sahara through North Africa and Southern Europe.

Image credit: Raymond Bucko, SJ [CC BY 2.0], via Flickr



By: Joe Kissell
Title: Winds with Names
Sourced From: feedpress.me/link/19120/11403006/winds-with-names
Published Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 07:01:17 +0000

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