The predominant wind is from the south west.

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Wind advisories extend from the Deep South to Virginia, according to the weather service.

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Whereas the prevailing moral wind used to blow reliably from the warm and indulgent south, now it blows also from the cold and prickly north.

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Usually, the prevailing south-westerly wind would take the ash cloud away from Europe and over the polar region, but a high-pressure area is bringing it over Europe, where it is sitting and barely moving as the ash spreads.

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Bacon charmed the crowd when he quoted from what he dubbed the Holy Book of the South: Gone With the Wind.

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