WINDS. 



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then the cool air flows out again to take the place of the warmer sea air 

 which is continuing to ascend. The intensity and regularity varies when 

 the degrees of heat are most different between land and sea and in tropical 

 regions ; and the varied coast formation will of course affect the wind, but 

 as a rule the fact may be accepted as plainly explained, sea-breeze in the 

 morning, land-breeze at night, and amateur sailors in boats at our watering- 

 places will do well to bear this in mind. 



There are a great number of local winds deriving their names from 

 their direction or influence. We may mention them briefly. The special 

 terms for winds are 



The North Wind, or Tramontana. 



The North-East Wind, or Greco. 



The East Wind, or Levante (Levanter 



The South-East Wind, or Sirocco. 



The South Wind, or Ostro. 



The South-West Wind, or Libeccio. 



The West Wind, or Ponente. 



The North-West Wind, or Maestro-Mistral. 



Fig. 715. On a lee shore 



The Mistral, or Maestrale, is well known at Nice as the north wind, 

 while at Toulon it is a north-east wind. The other winds, such as the 

 Sirocco, which in some places is a warm, damp wind, in Madeira is a hot 

 wind, and likewise in Sicily, where it is equally warm and damp like steam. 

 It has different names in various countries, such as Samiel in Turkey, and 

 sometimes as Fohn in Switzerland, where it may, however, be a north wind 

 which, as all travellers know, is a dry and a hazy-weather breeze, yet some- 

 times moist. The Simoon is a very hot wind raising sand-storms in the 



