The Trade Winds - culture corner

[EternalOptimist]

What a nice relic from a bygone age of sailing ships, wooden ships and iron men, becalming and strange new exotic places.
Did you know the monsoon is not a pile of heavy rain in the east. Its the name of a wind. And with the wind comes the rain.

And thats the reason why I am posting here in culture corner, are there any other winds that have a name ? and what's their story ?

[Pogle]

Isnt there le Mistral in France which drove many an impressionist painter round the twist?

[DimPrawn]

Willy willy or co ck eyed Bob.

[RichardCranium]

Maria.

Paint Your Wagon.

"And they Called the Wind Maria"

They Call the Wind Maria.

And apparently Mariah Carey was named after that song so she must have been a right smelly baby. And they spelled her name wrongly.

[Tingles]

Kamikaze?

[EternalOptimist]

Kamikaze?

ah yes. The Divine wind

wrecked the Korean fleet iirc

[Bunk]

Freemantle Doctor?

[shaunbhoy]

kamikaze - divine wind
sasguru - perpetual wind

[threaded]

Chinook

[threaded]

Isnt there le Mistral in France which drove many an impressionist painter round the twist?

aka Cierzo