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To: Letitring

Scanner: weather forecast, increasing NW winds.

Does a Northwest wind mean "blowing in the northwest direction" or from the northwest direction?

1,744 posted on 10/29/2003 4:08:31 PM PST by farmer18th

To: farmer18th

From the NW, I think.

1,767 posted on 10/29/2003 4:14:56 PM PST by Letitring (.)

To: farmer18th

Does a Northwest wind mean "blowing in the northwest direction" or from the northwest direction?

Wind is always reported by the direction it is coming from. So a Northwest wind is blowing Southeast.

(The exception is when they speak of onshore or offshore winds. Those are the directions the winds are blowing, not where they are coming from.)

1,783 posted on 10/29/2003 4:20:56 PM PST by Semper911 (For some people, bread and circus are not enough. Hence, FreeRepublic.com)

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