Today, however, the dominant wind is reported to have shifted and wind direction is more variable.
"They would have advised the crew of the wind direction and speed at various altitudes, " she added.
Dominant wind direction identified by REMS has surprised some researchers who expected slope effects to produce north-south winds.
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If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.
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The spokeswoman added that wind direction was "a valid contributing factor" to noise.
It is only in the Pairs Match that each competitor can have a coach providing information on wind direction and speed.
Technology advances in the last few years have replaced older, faster-moving windmills with new, self-monitoring turbines whose 150-foot long blades adjust to wind direction and speed.
Appropriately for someone who is best known for having discovered a comet, Halley used tiny comet-like marks to indicate wind direction, an idea that did not catch on.
The energy released in the updrafts then interacts with our second ingredient needed for violent tornadoes, the change of the wind direction and speed at you go upward from the ground.
At altitude, notably, for instance, approaching the Himalayas, it is far trickier to grasp just how factors such as wind direction, air pressure, latent heating and moisture levels interact to deliver monsoon rains.
Those characteristics can include a brief dip in air pressure, a change in wind direction, a change in wind speed, a rise in air temperature or a dip in ultraviolet light reaching the rover.
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Sudden changes in wind speed or direction, known as wind shear, can lift or smash aircraft into the ground during landing.
The Met Office has been advising the fire service about wind speed and direction.
With every tick, they are tossing blades of grass into the wind to gauge direction in real-time.
"Through embedded sensors, the probes can measure a tornado's wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature, " the magazine wrote.
The Met Office said the wind speed and direction made it "entirely possible" for the smell to have spread that far.
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Instead of placing our fingers in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing, we enlist the help of others to change the direction of the wind.
On a month-to-month or quarter-to-quarter basis the surveys are not good at telling us what the ONS will come up with - even if they do tell us which direction the wind is blowing.
Aircraft typically take off or land against the direction of the wind, which increases the lift to their wings.
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The direction of the wind matters, too, because wind blowing to shore can drive a storm surge and lead to coastal flooding.
If the direction of the wind is favourable then an accurate tee shot enables you to chip a nice low shot into the green.
There's also a handful of elements that we seldom see in these apps, such as a direction-relative wind indicator, optional motion-driven navigation and visual themes.
Correlating those diverse triggers tonews events is about as conclusive as giving stock prices responsibility for the sun setting or direction of the wind, or versa visa.
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The yacht, named after the eponymous novel and film, was built by Perini Navi, an Italian firm that installed the DynaRig technology that electronically trims the sails in the direction of the wind and can furl them into the masts in just six minutes.
Murray said Artemis Racing's catamaran was attempting to change direction and turn down wind when it capsized.
We understand that they had a favourable reception and were told that "the wind was blowing in the right direction".
Only a fool tries to reason with the wind hoping to persuade it to blow in another direction.
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But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.
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