This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions.
Africa
Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa.
Cape Doctor, often persistent and dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast from spring to late summer (September to March in the southern hemisphere).
Haboob, a sandstorm's fast moving wind which causes cold temperature over the area from where it passes. It mainly passes through Sudan.
Harmattan, a dry wind that blows from the northeast, bringing dust from the Sahara south toward the Gulf of Guinea.
Khamsin (khamaseen in Egypt) and similar winds named Haboob in the Sudan, Aajej in southern Morocco Ghibli in Libya and Tunisia, Harmattan in the western Maghreb, Sirocco, a south wind from the Sahara and Simoom in the Arabian Peninsula.
Tsiokantimo, a strong southerly wind affecting southwestern Madagascar. It is generally cool and dry and is associated with high-pressure systems over the southern Indian Ocean.
Alizé, a cool, moist northerly maritime wind that affects West and Central Africa, bringing relatively humid air from the Atlantic. It is essentially a regional trade wind with a local name.
Sirocco , a hot, dry wind originating in the Sahara and moving north across North Africa into the Mediterranean. Over the sea it often becomes warm and humid before reaching southern Europe.
Asia
Central Asia
Karaburan ("power storm") (a spring and winter katabatic wind of Central Asia)[1]
East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (장마), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.
Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina)
Pampero (Argentina and Uruguay), very strong wind that blows from the sea over the Rio de la Plata into the Pampa, generally accompanied with a thick line of squalls, with severe rains, hail and thunderstorm.
Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile)[9]
Sudestada, (strong offshore wind from the Southeast associated with most of the shipwrecks in Uruguay's Rio de la Plata coast)
Jarbo Gap Wind (associated with and often referred to as a Diablo Wind; katabatic winds in the Northern Sierra Nevada in the vicinity of Jarbo Gap, often contributing to the growth of local wildfires)[10][11]
Montreal Express (an arctic cold air mass that sweeps across New England sometimes as far as Massachusetts... the term seems to be regional to New England)
Nor'easter (strong storm with winds from the northeast on the north eastern coast of the United States (particularly New England states) and the east coast of Canada (Atlantic Canada))
Texas Norther (fast-moving, stormy Arctic cold front that strikes Texas in winter, dropping freezing rain or sleet, a.k.a. Blue Norther because it sometimes appears as a low, blue, dense advancing cloud)
Piteraq (cold katabatic wind on the Greenlandic east coast)
Bora (northeasterly from eastern Europe to northeastern Italy and northwestern Balkans)
Burle (north wind which blows in the winter in south-central France)
Cers (strong, very dry northeasterly wind in the bas-Languedoc region in southern France)
Cierzo (cool north/northwesterly wind on Ebro Valley in Spain)
Crivăț (strong, very cold north-easterly wind in Moldavia, Dobruja, and the Bărăgan Plain parts of Romania.)
Etesian (Greek name) or Meltem (Turkish name) (northerly across Greece and Turkey)
Euro (a warm and usually moderate wind from Africa that reaches the Ionian coast of Italy)
Euroclydon (a cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind in the Mediterranean)
Föhn or foehn (a warm, dry, southerly wind off the northern side of the Alps and North Italy. The name gave rise to the fén-fēng (焚風 'burning wind') of Taiwan).
Nor'wester (wind that brings rain to the West Coast, and warm dry winds to the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island, caused by the moist prevailing winds being uplifted over the Southern Alps, often accompanied by a distinctive arched cloud pattern)
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Continent Wise Classification and Distribution of Local Winds at the Wayback Machine(archived 11 September 2017)
