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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]
Burle (north wind which blows in the winter in south-central France) Cers (strong, very dry northeasterly wind in the bas-Languedoc region in southern France) Cierzo (cool north/northwesterly wind on Ebro Valley in Spain) Crivăț (strong, very cold north-easterly wind in Moldavia, Dobruja, and the Bărăgan Plain parts of Romania.)
the Levant, a very humid east wind, which brings moisture from the eastern Mediterranean. the Tramontane, a strong, cold and dry north wind, similar to the Mistral, which blows from the Massif Central mountains toward the Mediterranean to the west of the Rhone. the Marin, a strong, wet and cloudy south wind, which blows in from the Gulf of Lion.
Knowing the wind sampling average is important, as the value of a one-minute sustained wind is typically 14% greater than a ten-minute sustained wind. [16] A short burst of high speed wind is termed a wind gust ; one technical definition of a wind gust is: the maxima that exceed the lowest wind speed measured during a ten-minute time interval ...
Mistral (missile), a surface-to-air missile developed in France; Mistral (pisco), a brand of pisco named after Gabriela Mistral; Mistral (software), an information retrieval software system; Mistral (typeface), a 1953 casual typeface designed by Frenchman Roger Excoffon; Le Mistral, an express train which ran between Paris and Nice
The reference to "a Chinook" wind or weather system originally meant, to euro-American settlers along the Pacific Northwest coast, a warming wind from the ocean blowing into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest of the North America. A strong föhn wind can make snow one foot (30 cm) deep almost vanish in one day. [6]
Meteo France defines the mistral as a north wind, but the traditional Provencal compass rose displayed on the coastal walk in Toulon shows it as a northwest wind, with the tramontane being the north wind. It seems that the Tramontane is major wind from the north to the west of the Rhone, while the mistral is the name for the wind coming from ...
The strong mistral wind from the north provides positive and negative influences on the viticulture. While it can cool the grapes from the heat and dry the grapes after rain, providing some protection against rot and grape diseases , it can also damage vines that are not securely trained and protected by hillside landforms. [ 4 ]