Due to the storm's fast track to the northwest, a gale warning and hurricane watch were issued for the Leeward and northern Windward Islands.
The northern, or windward, division comprised six third rate ships of the line, two fourth rate ships and the frigate Circe, tasked with repeating signals from the flagship Venerable, which led the division with and close behind.
The sunny southern slopes differ from the shady northern ones, and windward slopes exposed to moist ocean winds differ from leeward slopes, which, lying in the wind (and rain) shadow, are necessarily drier.
Its northern and eastern (windward) portions receive significant rainfall and have lush vegetation and forests; its southern and western (leeward) sections, however, are arid and have varicoloured conical cinder deposits up to 600 feet (180 metres) high that were formed by secondary eruptions.
The islands of Cape Verde are divided into the Northern or Barlovento (windward) islands (Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista) and Southern or Sotavento (leeward) islands (Maio, Santiago, Fogo, and Brava).
Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west of Haiti's northern peninsula, across the Windward Passage, a strait connecting the Atlantic to the Caribbean.
Topographic control on the present and past distribution of glaciers is indicated by close correspondence along the range between mean elevation and the modern equilibrium line altitude of glaciers (ELA) and differences in the modern ELA, mean annual precipitation and temperature across the range between the windward, southern and leeward, northern flanks.
Later, during the early to mid-Miocene, the aerial connection between eastern Cuba and northern Hispaniola was interrupted by the expansion of the Windward Passage (~17-14 Ma) [ 6, 13].
With below average sea temperatures over the North Atlantic, it was not surprisingly a chilly month in northern and western parts of the British Isles, especially around windward coasts.
Hulric Pierre-Louis, a Septen founder and its maestro for many years, used to tell stories of how as a young man growing up in Cap-Haitien on the northern coast, he would listen to radio stations in Santiago, Cuba, on the other side of the narrow Windward Passage, and transcribe the music he heard coming over the airwaves.
WINDWARD HEIGHTS, by Maryse Conde.
