Abstract
The American Meteorological Journal for June contains a summary of an interesting article by Dr. F. Umlauft, on the names of the winds, originally published in the Deutsche Rundschau für Geographieund Statistik (vol. xvi. No. 3). The winds are mostly named according to the regions from which they come; thus winds blowing from land to sea are called land-breezes, and vice vena. The original names of the east and west points of the compass, and of the winds from those points, were deiivcd from words connected with the appearance and disappearance of daylight; the names of north and south.were principally associated with the kinds of weather that came from those points.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 50, 188 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050188b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050188b0