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Weather Words

Word of Mouth

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The Wind, I Love the Names of Winds and Where They Come From

Winds are tremendously romantic and evocative, aren't they? Perhaps especially sort of desert winds that, you know, cars tend to get named after o helicopters. We got the sirocco and the shunok and the hramsin and the harmatan and the mistral. There's at least a couple of winds that are called the doctor er. And the australians have the freemantle doctor - which is supposed to be healthy or invigorating.

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