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Grote Mandrenke (known as St Maury's wind in Ireland) [1] 15–16 January 1362 A southwesterly Atlantic gale swept across England, the Netherlands, northern Germany and southern Denmark, killing over 25,000 and changing the Dutch-German-Danish coastline. All Saints' Flood: 1 November 1570 (11 November, New Style) [2] Spanish Armada storms 1588
Derecho comes from the Spanish adjective for "straight" (or "direct"), in contrast with a tornado which is a "twisted" wind. [5] The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877.
Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra); Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan); East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.
Extreme wind (70 mph or greater) Downpours; Heavy rain; Flood, flash flood, coastal flooding; Hail; High winds – 93 km/h(58 mph) or higher. Lightning; Thundersnow, Snowsquall; Tornado; Windstorm (gradient pressure induced) Severe thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microbursts and macrobursts)
Winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h) were estimated in extreme southeastern Iowa and Western Illinois, with multiple reports of damaged roofs, destroyed outbuildings, and large trees blown over. The highest recorded wind gust was 90 mph (140 km/h) in Adrian, IL. In some areas, winds gusted over 70 mph (110 km/h) for 15 minutes.
Levant cloud forming against the eastern cliffs of the Rock of Gibraltar.. The levant (Catalan: Llevant, Italian: Levante, Maltese: Lvant, Greek: Λεβάντες, Spanish: Levante) is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France, an example of mountain-gap wind.
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This established the standard Spanish route to the Americas: south to the Canary Islands, west on the trade winds to the Caribbean, then beat against the wind north of Cuba using the Florida Current to the Gulf Steam, then use it to go north to the westerlies which led directly home. Since wind systems move north in summer and south in winter ...