Ponente

Poniente (set of span = poner, put or place where the sun " sits ", thus setting ) the west wind in the southern Spanish and North Moroccan coast is called. He is the opposite of the Levant, the east wind or the Terral, the north wind with Föneinfluss.

The poniente a generally lighter wind, but compared to the Levante is colder in the southern Spanish and north Moroccan Atlantic coast, since it comes from the ocean. On the east coast of Spain the Poniente is perceived as warmer than on the west coast, as it heats up while crossing the Iberian Peninsula. The poniente blows between the Sierra Nevada and the Atlas Mountains into the Mediterranean Sea. On the Mediterranean coast of poniente occurs as warm and hot in the summer wind, as this coming touches land from the Atlantic Ocean, heats up by the continental climate, until he meets again on the Mediterranean coast.

The Poniente influence is very different. There are years in which blows for the most part the Poniente and this temporarily replaced only from June to August from Levante and others where more or Levante in the Mediterranean, especially around Malaga in the summer prevails much Terral wind.