The dry season is accompanied by a dust laden airmass from the Sahara Desert, locally known as Harmattan, or by its main name, The Tropical Continental ( CT ) airmass, while the rainy season is heavily influenced by an airmass originating from the south atlantic ocean, locally known as the south west wind, or by its main name, The Tropical Maritime ( MT ) airmass.

This transfer of heat in the Tropical continental airmass ( CT ) in turn, causes the wind to expand and become lighter as this is the normal behaviour for winds moving above intensely heated grounds.

The Tropical continental airmass ( CT ) loses its strength as a major airmass in the region of west Africa and over Nigeria at this time ( around February in the southern part of Nigeria to June in northern Nigeria ) and begins to retreat coupled with the rising of air in form of convection within this airmass ( Tropical continental airmass ( CT )), further weakening the dominance of the wind over west Africa and Nigeria.

The Tropical Maritime Airmass is a warm humid and unstable trade wind due to its warmth.

The Tropical Continental Airmass ( CT ) locally known as the harmattan, is a wind originating from North Africa which crosses the Sahara Desert into west Africa to Nigeria.

Tropical ; hot, humid ; rainy season ( May to November ) has strong southeast winds ; dry season ( December to April ) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind.

* Tropical thunderstorms in the south, which may bring wind and lightning damage as well as flash floods.

The last tropical system to hit Westport was Tropical Storm Irene on Sunday, August 28, 2011, which hit the town at about and brought mostly wind which knocked down many trees and tree branches.

During the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996, an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 408 km / h ( 220 kn ; 253 mph ; 113 m / s ).

Tropical cyclone development requires relatively low values of vertical wind shear so that their warm core can remain above their surface circulation center, thereby promoting strengthening.

Initially, intensification was limited due to an upper-level low causing vertical wind shear over Tropical Storm Mitch.

Tropical cyclogenesis depends upon low-level vorticity as one of its six requirements, and the ITCZ fills this role as it is a zone of wind change and speed, otherwise known as horizontal wind shear.

Due to low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Humberto six hours later.

Despite the presence of wind shear, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Noel on September 27.

Because Gert had a broad wind circulation, it produced widespread and heavy rainfall across Central America, which, combined with saturated soil from Tropical Storm Bret a month earlier, caused significant flooding of property and crops.

On September 14, convection was well-organized enough around a small closed wind circulation to classify the system as Tropical Depression Ten near Trinidad and Tobago.

Low upper-level wind shear and well-defined outflow contributed to further intensification, and the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Charley on August 10, despite being located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, which is an area not particularly suited to tropical cyclogenesis.

It gradually organized while continuing westward, developing into Tropical Storm Manuel and ultimately lasting until October 18 before succumbing to cooler waters and wind shear.

As it approached the Lesser Antilles it organized further, and despite unfavorable upper-level wind shear the system developed into Tropical Depression Thirteen on October 3 while located about 115 miles ( 185 km / h ) east of Dominica.

As the newly named Tropical Storm Gay strengthened, it " presented a paradox to forecasters " according to Lieutenant Dianne K. Crittenden ; synoptic data from Malaysia and Thailand indicated decreasing wind speeds and increasing barometric pressures around the storm, but these observations were later interpreted as increased subsidence.

Vestas V47-660kW wind turbine at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy

In these stories, she often invades homes, blowing in the door with a gust of wind to kill residents in their sleep ( some legends require her to be invited inside first ).

( So prevalent are these isolated peaks and ridges that a specialised term has been adopted in Germany to describe this kind of country, thought to be in great part the result of wind action.

In the rainy season, the country receives between 600 and 900 millimetres ( 23. 6 and 35. 4 in ) of rainfall ; in the dry season, the harmattan – a hot dry wind from the Sahara – blows.

The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

: Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with its former defense industries and test ranges are found throughout the country and pose health risks for humans and animals ; industrial pollution is severe in some cities ; because the two main rivers which flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides and natural salts ; these substances are then picked up by the wind and blown into noxious dust storms ; pollution in the Caspian Sea ; soil pollution from overuse of agricultural chemicals and salination from poor infrastructure and wasteful irrigation practices

This climate is influenced by the monsoons originating from the South Atlantic ocean, which is brought into the country by the ( maritime tropical ) MT airmass, a warm moist sea to land seasonal wind. Its warmth and high humidity gives it a strong tendency to ascend and produce copious rainfall, which is a result of the condensation of water vapour in the rapidly rising air.

In the middle of the dry season around December, a dusty wind from the Sahara Desert called the harmattan enters Nigeria from the northeastern part of the country blocking sun rays partially from shining and also creating haze in the atmosphere, this activities of the wind lowers temperatures considerably saving inhabitants for sometime, from the scorching heat that would have occurred as a result of clearer skies during the dry season.

During the winter, the dominant wind is the cold pampero from the South Atlantic, which blows across Argentina and is deflected northeastward by the Andes in the southern part of that country.

The United Kingdom keeps the military style tradition with many civil and youth bands in all of the UK keeping the military band traditions of the country, either as marching wind bands, Corps of Drums, bugle bands, pipe bands, and in Northern Ireland, fife and drum bands.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

By the end of 2008, the country had a fleet of over 24, 000 locomotives, the most lines in the world, the fastest express train in service, and longest high speed track in the world .. UK, Denmark, and other countries in northern Europe that surround the Baltic Sea and North Sea, continue to develop their rapid expansion of off-shore wind farms.

Most of these musical styles are also be played by wind ensembles of varying sizes at popular festivals around the country.

The wind corridor stretches from the Panhandle of Texas up into Minnesota, including some of the most wind rich states in the country.

The next morning, however, Frances suddenly announces to Shadwell that she is returning to the United States, explaining that she does not want to wind up an old maid in a foreign country.

“ Crawick Mill was a clean tidy little hamlet pleasantly embosomed on the banks of the Crawick and sheltered from almost every wind that blew, and there was no happier colony of weavers to be found in any country district in Scotland.

It refers to a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, with fields and winding country lanes sunken between narrow low ridges and banks surmounted by tall thick hedgerows that break the wind but also limit visibility.

Mountain biking can be performed almost anywhere from a back yard to a gravel road, but the majority of mountain bikers ride off-road trails, whether country back roads, fire roads, or singletrack ( narrow trails that wind through forests, mountains, deserts, or fields ).

English naturalist William Yarrell also reported the country practice of killing a kingfisher and hanging it from a thread in the belief that it would swing to predict the direction in which the wind would blow.

The distance at which the line first intersects and then leaves every settler's claim and improvement ; prairie ; river, creek, or other " bottom "; or swamp, marsh, grove, and wind fall, with the course of the same at both points of intersection ; also the distances at which you begin to ascend, arrive at the top, begin to descend, and reach the foot of all remarkable hills and ridges, with their courses, and estimated height, in feet, above the level land of the surrounding country, or above the bottom lands, ravines, or waters near which they are situated.

Much of this land is within the city boundaries and these ranges have the reputation of providing the most consistent wind in the country.