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Mistral wind blowing near Marseille.In the centre is the Château d'If.. The mistral (Catalan: mestral, Corsican: maestrale, Croatian: maestral, Greek: μαΐστρος, Italian: maestrale, Maltese: majjistral) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. [1]
Mistral wind blowing near Marseille. In the center is the Chateau d'If. The winds of Provence, the region of southeast France along the Mediterranean from the Alps to the mouth of the Rhone River, are an important feature of Provençal life, and each one has a traditional local name, in the Provençal language.
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.
Sirocco wind. Sirocco (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɒ k oʊ / sih-RO-koh) or scirocco is a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and can reach hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe, especially during the summer season.
The Maestro is, as noted, the west Mediterranean Mistral, a wind already given in the Latin rose as Circius, but the name here is novel. Two Arabic words stand out: Scirocco (SE) from the Arabic al-Sharq (east) and the variant Garbino (SW), from the Arabic al-Gharb (west) (both of which, incidentally, translate to rising and setting respectively).
Mistral may refer to: Mistral (wind) in southern France and Sardinia; Automobiles. Maserati Mistral, a Maserati grand tourer produced from 1963 until 1970;
A sea breeze is an onshore wind caused by the heating of air over the land at low altitudes. The Mistral is an offshore wind caused by the cooling of air over land at high altitudes. The funnelling effect that produces the Mistral occurs at only a few places, and each wind produced this way has its own name.
Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall; Floods. Flash flood; Rainstorm; Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena, see Blood rain) Monsoon