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- Santa Ana winds (southern California)
- Shamal (wind) (Kurdish term, signifying a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states)
- Simoom (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in the Sahara, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia)
- Sirocco (southerly from north Africa to southern Europe)
- Southerly Buster (rapidly arriving low pressure cell that dramatically cools Sydney, Australia during summer)
- Sou'wester (strong wind which blows from the southwest, and also a type of waterproof hat designed to protect from and repel wind and rain)
- Squamish (wind) (strong, violent wind occurring in many of the fjords of British Columbia)
- Sudestada (wind), (strong offshore wind from the Southeast associated with most of the shipwrecks in Uruguay's Rio de la Plata coast)
- Sundowner (wind), (strong offshore wind off the California coast)
Read more about this topic: List Of Local Winds