The list covers local
winds and local
weather phenomena including seasonal winds.
A
friend sent me this list of different wind names when I couldn't remember
the name of the wind in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. It was a
Chinook that was that wind that, because of it's speed, would actually raise
the temperature of the snow and create huge avalanches. I've hiked in
the Sierras for about eighteen years and climbed many mountains also.
Most mountains that I've climbed, I climbed several times, but one little
one, which is great for taking beginners for a breath taking view and a real
good break in workout was Little Baldy in Sequoia National Park. We
would climb this mountain with the beginners and when we had our running
group, unofficially called the Wolfpack, we would use Little Baldy as good
mountain run. The total distance up the steep side and down the trail
was about seven miles and a fantastic workout.
Abroholos
(squall frequent wind that occurs from May through August between
Cabo de Sao Tome and Cabo Frio on the coast of
Brazil)
Alize
(northeasterly across central
Africa and the Caribbean)
Aliz Maritime (wet, fresh northerly wind across west central
Africa)
Amihan (northeasterly wind across the
Philippines)
Mistral
(cold northerly from central France and the Alps to Mediterranean)
Monsoon
(mainly south-westerly winds combined with
heavy rain in various areas close to the
equator)
Nor'easter
(strong storm with winds from the northeast in the eastern United
States, especially
New England)
Nor'wester
(wind that brings rain to the
West Coast, and
warm dry winds to the East Coast of
New Zealand's
South Island,
caused by the moist
prevailing winds being uplifted over the
Southern Alps)
This is a southern view of Sequoia National Park from the peak
of Mt. Little Baldy. Little Baldy was a fantastic mountain to climb for
beginners or even experienced climbers who just want to see a fantastic view.
Little Baldy is 8044 feet and the trail is about 2.3 miles to the peak. It's
just absolutely beautiful. In the background, toward the left side, you
can see a little sawtooth type of mountain, that is Sawtooth Peak at 12,343 ft.
which I have climbed four times. The mountains are beautiful there, and in
the 1970, the ice at 12,000 was totally gone in late summer. I am
wondering how it was fifty years before that and how it is now?
The background picture
was taking by the Webmaster on the North Pole Expedition of 2003, of the sea ice
while flying to the island of Spitsbergen, Norway in the Arctic Ocean. I
watched global warming happen in my nine years of North Pole Expedition
evolvement. It's real.
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