The Pacifics prevailing southeast trade winds blow away from the South American coast, not toward it.
The southeast trade winds blow for about seven months each year, and rainfall on the southward-facing slopes of the central highlands frequently exceeds 300 inches (7,620 mm) annually.
Southeast Asia does blow a cloud over our stock market, making earnings forecasts iffy for prime multinationals like Coca-Cola, 3M, Boeing.
That was valuable in the difficult southeast winds that blew for most of the last two days.
The effect of aerosols on PG is further enhanced because of the direction of the wind typically blowing southeast to southwest at that time, which transfers more aerosols toward the EFM instrument.
In Buffalo, New York, morning northwest winds had shifted to northeast by noon and were blowing southeast by 5 00 p.m., with the fastest gusts, 80 mph (130 km/h), occurring between 1 00 p.m. and 2 00 p.m.
But on the plus side, the runway is very long indeed, having reportedly been extended to accommodate space shuttles in distress, should one need to drop by, and it obligingly runs right along the line of the southeast trade winds which blow over the island incessantly; no risk of crosswinds here.
PAGE A18 CATTLE ROUNDUP AFTER HURRICANE Two weeks after Hurricane Ike blew through Southeast Texas, cowboys on horseback and in helicopters are still trying to round up thousands of displaced cattle.
The Bear Fire is located just about 15 miles southeast of Trinidad, having blown over the New Mexico border.
"With the wind blowing from the southeast, we probably got a very big blast of this odor coming up".
