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S: (n) Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)
S: (n) east wind, easter, easterly (a wind from the east)

S: (n) wind, air current, current of air (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure) "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"

S: (n) jet stream (a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere; has important effects of the formation of weather fronts)

S: (n) calm air, calm (wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air (a slight wind (usually refreshing)) "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"

S: (n) sea breeze (a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime))
S: (n) breath (a slight movement of the air) "there wasn't a breath of air in the room"
S: (n) light air (wind moving 1-3 knots; 1 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) light breeze (wind moving 4-7 knots; 2 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) gentle breeze (wind moving 8-12 knots; 3 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) moderate breeze (wind moving 13-18 knots; 4 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) fresh breeze (wind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) strong breeze (wind moving 25-31 knots; 6 on the Beaufort scale)

S: (n) chinook, chinook wind, snow eater (a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies)
S: (n) harmattan (a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter)
S: (n) crosswind (wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft)
S: (n) fohn, foehn (a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps)
S: (n) khamsin (an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring)
S: (n) Santa Ana (a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast)
S: (n) high wind (a very strong wind) "rain and high winds covered the region"
S: (n) headwind (wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft)
S: (n) katabatic wind, catabatic wind (a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air)
S: (n) tailwind (wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft)
S: (n) doldrums (a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific)
S: (n) languor (oppressively still air) "the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor"; "Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow"
S: (n) east wind, easter, easterly (a wind from the east)

S: (n) moderate gale, near gale (wind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) fresh gale (wind moving 39-46 knots; 8 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) strong gale (wind moving 47-54 knots; 9 on the Beaufort scale)
S: (n) whole gale (wind moving 55-63 knots; 10 on the Beaufort scale)

S: (n) gust, blast, blow (a strong current of air) "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

S: (n) monsoon (a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter)
S: (n) monsoon (any wind that changes direction with the seasons)
S: (n) north wind, northerly, norther, boreas (a wind that blows from the north)

S: (n) bise, bize (a dry cold north wind in southeastern France)
S: (n) mistral (a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter)
S: (n) tramontane, tramontana (a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean)

S: (n) prevailing wind (the predominant wind direction) "the prevailing wind is from the southwest"

S: (n) antitrades (wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds)
S: (n) trade wind, trade (steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator) "they rode the trade winds going west"
S: (n) antitrade wind, antitrade (winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics)

S: (n) simoom, simoon, samiel (a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa)
S: (n) south wind, souther, southerly (a wind from the south)
S: (n) squall (sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation)

S: (n) line squall (a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line)

S: (n) thermal (rising current of warm air)
S: (n) draft, draught (a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle))

S: (n) prevailing westerly, westerly (the winds from the west that occur in the temperate zones of the Earth)

S: (n) weather, weather condition, conditions, atmospheric condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation) "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; "the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow"