List of Important Local Winds
local winds blow over a limited area. They are caused due to influence of local pressure gradient and terrain. The local winds blow between small, low, and high-pressure systems. These winds are influenced by local geographical conditions like distance from the ocean, lake, or mountain range, all these factors affect local winds.
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Important local winds
List of some important Local winds of the world:
Name | Place | Characteristics |
Bora | Adriatic Coast (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. |
Blizzard | Tundra region |
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. |
Mistral | From central France and the Alps to the Mediterranean | is a strong, cold, north-westerly wind |
Norther | Texas, Gulf of Mexico to W. Caribbean |
These are cold, strong, northerly winds. |
Pampero | The Pampas of South America | Cold winds. |
Levanter | Spain |
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 |
Etesian | Eastern Mediterranean |
These cool, dry north-easterly wind. It is associated with a regional low-pressure system. |
Purga | Russia | It is a Cold Wind |
Khamsin | North Africa and Arabia |
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. |
Harmattan | West Africa |
Hot dry wind characterized by dust-laden |
Chinook | Eastern slopes of Rockies
The USA- Canada |
It is a warm and dry wind. |
Foehn | Alpine lands | dry, warm, down-slope wind.
Similar to chinook. The warmer climate of Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Austria is due to Foehn |
Zonda | Argentina |
Warm, dry wind. Blows through the slop of the Andes in Argentina. |
Elephanta | Malabar Coast of India |
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 |
Santa Ana | South California | Hot wind |
Loo | North India and Pakistan |
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. |
Calima | The Canary Island Region |
The Calima is a hot, dust and sand-laden dry wind South to southeasterly. |
Sirocco, or jugo | From the Sahara to the Mediterranean sea |
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 |
Solano | Sahara to Iberian peninsula |
The Solano is a hot, moist wind. It is an easterly to southeasterly wind. |
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_local_winds
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