List of Local Winds - S

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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)

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