List of Important Local Winds

(A body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkans)

These are Cold, Gusty, North-easterly from eastern Europe to north-eastern Italy and north-western Balkans. The wind blows in gusts. The bora is most common during the winter.

Cold Wind, A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 km/h (35 mph) which lasts for a prolonged time.

These are cold, strong, northerly winds.

Cold wind- north-easterly winds of long fetch, as opposed to diurnal coastal breezes. These gales are most frequent and dangerous in spring and autumn

These cool, dry north-easterly wind. It is associated with a regional low-pressure system.

The wind is hot, dry sandy, south-easterly. blows regularly at 50 days’ period. The wind affects Egypt and the Levant; similar winds, blowing in other parts of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the entire Mediterranean basin.

Hot dry wind characterized by dust-laden

The USA- Canada

It is a warm and dry wind.

Similar to chinook. The warmer climate of Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Austria is due to Foehn

Warm, dry wind. Blows through the slop of the Andes in Argentina.

Moist wind, strong southerly or south-easterly wind of India blows during the months of September and October and marks the onset of the southwest monsoon

The Loo is a strong, dusty, gusty, hot, and dry summer wind from the west which blows over the western Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan.

The Calima is a hot, dust and sand-laden dry wind South to southeasterly.

It is Hot, Moist wind. sirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe

The Solano is a hot, moist wind. It is an easterly to southeasterly wind.