Names of Winds, Letter B

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Bad-e-simur – Season of hot winds from deserts in mid-summer in Iran.
Bad-i-sad-o-bistroz – Strong north-north-western summer wind in south Afghanistan.
Bagujos – See Baguo.
Baguo – Typhoons in the Philippines region.
Baixo (vento di) – Breeze in Portugal.
Balaton – Wind on Lake Balaton (Hungary) that blows in summer.
Bali-wind – Strong summer monsoon in the east of Java.
Ban-gull – Sea breeze in Scotland.
Barat – Strong north-western or western squall in Manando bay, on the northern shore of Sulawesi island.
Barber – Blizzard in the eastern harbours of the USA and Canada.
Bardanis – North-western wind in Narbonne (France).
Barih – North-western wind in the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as well as in the Persian Gulf.
Barines – Western wind in eastern Venezuela, which drives the water away from the shore.
Barran (vent de) – South-eastern wind in Auch (Gers department, France).
Bati Lodos – See Lodos.
Batis – See Embatis.
Batticaloa kachchan – Warm south wind analogous to Föhn on Sri Lanka. It is called mad wind, since it negatively affects the condition of certain sick persons.
Bauju – Wet and warm south or south-eastern summer wind in Haute-Savoie department (France).
Bayamo – Tropic squall in the south of Cuba.
Bayonne (vent de) – Moderate south-western wind in Gers department, western wind in Ariège department (France).
Begviz – Typhoon on the Philippines.
Belat – Strong, sometimes squally northern or thorth-western wind that blows in winter or early in spring (from December through March) to the south and south-eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula.
Beltane-ree – Storm weather in Scotalnd and on the Orkney Islands.
Bergwind – Eastern Föhn in the coastal part of Namibia.
Bernsteinwind – Light north-western sea wind on the Baltic coast.
Bhadoi – Rainy south-western monsoon in North India, West Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Bhoot – See Bhut.
Bhut – Small sand spout in India.
Binante – See Binaude.
Binaude – North-western wind in Jura department (France).
Birason – See Virason.
Bise – Northern or north-eastern wind in the mountainous regions of France, Italy and Switzerland.
Biso (bent de) – Bise in Gers department (France).
Bissorte – Warm southern wind from the pass Saint-Martin-la-Porte (Savoie department, France).
Blaast – Squall in Scotland and Sweden.
Black northeaster – Cold north-eastern black wind with bad weather in the United States.
Black roller – Black storm in the west of the United States.
Black southeaster – Black south-eastern storm in South Africa and Australia.
Blackthorn winter – Cold and dry winds from March through April in the valley of the Thames river.
Blad – Squall with heavy shower in Scotland.
Blanc – South-western white wind in Vilfort (Lozère department, France).
Blank – Sudden squall in England.
Blash – Strong blast of wind, sudden beginning of a storm in England.
Blaze – Sudden blast of dry wind in Scotland.
Blés – Southern wind in Vernaux (Ardèche department, France).
Blieffart – See Bliffart.
Bliffart – Strong blast of wind with brief snowfall in Scotland.
Blinter – Blast of wind in Scotland.
Blirty – Blast of wind with rain in Scotland.
Blizzar – Cold northern wind with snow in Savoie department (France).
Blout – Sudden beginning of storm weather with heavy shower, sometimes with hail in Scotland.
Blouter – See Blout.
Blowther – See Blout.
Bluffart – See Bliffart.
Boaren – Wind in the Salo bay on Lake Garda (Italy).
Bochorno – South-eastern wind from the Mediterranean, which blows in the mouth of the Ebro river.
Bofu – Squall near the coasts of Japan.
Bohorok – Warm and dry wind analogous to Föhn in the north-east of Sumatra.
Boorga – See Burga.
Borasco – Squall in the Mediterranean.
Bordelais – Warm western wind in Cahors (Lot department) in the south-west of France, which blows from Bordeaux.
Boreas – Cold northern wind in Greece.
Boulbie – Very strong, cold and dry wind in Ariège department (France).
Bourdéou (bent de) – North-western wind in Gers department (France).
Bourget – Northern wind with rain in Saint-Offenge-Dessous (Savoie department, France).
Bramont – Cold northern wind that blows from the pass Montsapey in France.
Brash – See Blash.
Breather – Tropic squall.
Breva – Daytime wind on Lake Como in Italy.
Brickfielder – Northern squall, hot, dry and very dusty wind that blows from the deserts of the south-eastern Australia.
Broeboe – See Brubu.
Brubu – Eastern squall in East India and Indonesia.
Brughierous – Southern wind on the north of the Montagne-Noire in France.
Brulant (vent au) – Sounthern wind in Normandie (France).
Brüscha – North-eastern wind during fine weather in the Bergell valley, the basin of the Mera river and Upper Engadine (Switzerland).
Buësh – South-eastern wind in the valleys of Drôme department (France).
Bukifu – Trade wind near the coasts of Japan.
Burga – Squally wind in Alaska. Also the season of hot winds from deserts in Iran.
Burle – Snow storm on the right bank of the lower Rhône river.
Burster – Strong southern cold wind in New South Wales, in the south-west and south of Ausralia and in New Zealand.
Bush-foot-devil – See Sand spout.

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