Norte (wind)

Under Norte always understood northerly wind. Nortes are known in various parts of the world.

For example, in northern Spain are cold katabatic winds from the snowy winter mountain ranges of the Pyrenees. In Argentina, the Nortes occur as warm moist northerly winds on the front of low pressure areas (analogous to a trough front Südwestanströmung in Europe) on. In North America, they can bring strong drops in temperature in the southern states with them when they replace the warm air from the region around the Gulf of Mexico within hours as a cold " Northers ". Then, the temperature can drop from one to the next day by more than 30 ° C. They are usually triggered by a high pressure system over the Great Basin.

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