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  2. Prevailing winds - Wikipedia

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    The westerlies (blue) and trade winds (yellow and brown) Global surface wind vector flow lines colored by wind speed from June 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends in direction of ...

  3. Santa Ana winds - Wikipedia

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    This map illustration shows a characteristic high-pressure area centered over the Great Basin, with the clockwise anticyclone wind flow out of the high-pressure center giving rise to a Santa Ana wind event as the airmass flows through the passes and canyons of Southern California, manifesting as a dry northeasterly wind.

  4. File:NASA Worldwind, USGS imagery map, Chain Island ...

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    Backgrounds for these highlight images are black at 85-90% opacity, outlines are 2-10px outside selection border, pure red at 15-25% opacity. Boundaries taken from USGS survey maps (1913 through 2018), reclamation district documents, and county files. Source: NASA tool at worldwind.earth, USGS Topo Imagery map layer: Author: USGS, self: Permission

  5. List of local winds - Wikipedia

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    Sundowner, (strong offshore wind off the California coast) Washoe Zephyr (seasonal diurnal wind in parts of western Nevada) Williwaw (strong, violent wind occurring in the Strait of Magellan, the Aleutian Islands, and the coastal fjords of Southeast Alaska) Witch of November, or November Witch (strong winds blowing across the Great Lakes in autumn)

  6. Climate of California - Wikipedia

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    The ENSO cycle has a huge effect on rainfall and snowfall patterns in California, especially during the winter and spring seasons. During the El Niño phase, the jet stream is located south through California, allowing for warmer temperatures and more heavy rains to occur, particularly in the southern portions of the state.

  7. NASA WorldWind - Wikipedia

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    Animation showing atmosphere and shading effects in v1.4 USGS Urban Ortho-Imagery of Huntington Beach, California in older version of WorldWind (1.2) Rapid Fire MODIS – Hurricane Katrina A cyclone moving across the Indian Ocean (on normal cloud cover – not Rapid Fire MODIS) Moon – Hypsometric Map layer Mars (THEMIS layer) – Olympus Mons Hurricane Dean in NASA WorldWind Washington DC ...

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