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    #11
    Etesian
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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      #12
      Zephyr (where the car gets its name from)
      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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        #13
        Chinook, wow. Thats a good one, I knew about the Freemantle doctor, but I never knew that Chinook was a wind

        good one Threaded



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          #14
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
          ah yes. The Divine wind

          wrecked the Korean fleet iirc

          Mongol fleet of Kublai Khan
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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            #15
            Originally posted by threaded View Post
            Chinook
            A lee wind that blows to the east of the Rockies in Merkinland. It takes its name from a local Indian tribe and means "snow eater". (In wonder if they have a word for "yellow snow eater"?)

            As it is warm and dry it often spells the end of the winter's snow.
            My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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              #16
              The Föhn Wind from the Alps. Ja!

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                #17
                Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                Chinook, wow. Thats a good one, I knew about the Freemantle doctor, but I never knew that Chinook was a wind

                good one Threaded



                A föhn wind IIRC you can be digging through a snow drift to find your car in the morning, this starts blowing, and it's meadows of flowers in the evening.
                Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by threaded View Post
                  Etesian
                  A refreshing summer wind known as the Etesian by the Greeks and the Meltemi by those in Turkey.

                  It is a northerly wind that blows through the central and eastern Mediterranean during the summer. With high pressure over Hungary and low pressure over Turkey, this strong wind brings very welcome cooler weather down across Greece and Turkey, giving some relief from the normal fierce heat.
                  My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                    #19
                    tsunami - harbour wave
                    "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

                    Norrahe's blog

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by vandiss View Post
                      The Föhn Wind from the Alps. Ja!
                      Another dry, warm lee wind.

                      It is indeed the name of the wind that blows in the European Alps, but it is now used as a generic term for any similar lee wind.

                      It gains its warmth from the air being compressed as it descends down the lee slope of a mountain and historically has been blamed for symptoms such as headaches, depression and even suicide among people living in its path.
                      My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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