A list of Seasonal Winds in Different Parts of the Earth, Global Climate Wind Names  

The list covers local winds and local weather phenomena including seasonal winds.

A friend sent me this list of different wind names when I couldn't remember the name of the wind in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range.  It was a Chinook that was that wind that, because of it's speed, would actually raise the temperature of the snow and create huge avalanches.  I've hiked in the Sierras for about eighteen years and climbed many mountains also.  Most mountains that I've climbed, I climbed several times, but one little one, which is great for taking beginners for a breath taking view and a real good break in workout was Little Baldy in Sequoia National Park.  We would climb this mountain with the beginners and when we had our running group, unofficially called the Wolfpack, we would use Little Baldy as good mountain run.  The total distance up the steep side and down the trail was about seven miles and a fantastic workout. 

• Abroholos (squall frequent wind that occurs from May through August between Cabo de Sao Tome and Cabo Frio on the coast of Brazil)
• Alize (northeasterly across central Africa and the Caribbean)
• Alizé Maritime (wet, fresh northerly wind across west central Africa)
• Amihan (northeasterly wind across the Philippines)
• Bayamo (violent wind on Cuba's southern coast)
• Bora (northeasterly from eastern Europe to northeastern Italy)
• Calima (dust-laden south to southeasterly wind blowing in the Saharan Air Layer across the Canary Islands)
• Cape Doctor (dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast in summer)
• Chinook (warm dry westerly off the Rocky Mountains)
• Etesian (Greek name) or Meltem (Turkish name) (northerly across Greece and Turkey)
• Föhn (warm dry southerly off the northern side of the Alps and the North Italy), the name gave rise to the fén-fēng (焚風 'burning wind') of Taiwan
• Fremantle Doctor (afternoon sea breeze from the Indian Ocean which cools Perth, Western Australia during summer)
• Gilavar (south wind in the Absheron Peninsula of the Azerbaijan Republic)
• Gregale (northeasterly from Greece)
• Habagat (southwesterly wind across the Philippines)
• Harmattan (dry northerly wind across central Africa)
• Halny (in northern Carpathians)
• Helm Wind (north-easterly wind in Cumbria, England)
• Khamsin (southeasterly from north Africa to the eastern Mediterranean)
• Khazri (cold north wind in the Absheron Peninsula of the Azerbaijan Republic)
• Kona (southeast wind in Hawaii, replacing trade winds, bringing high humidity and often rain)
• Košava (strong and cold southeasterly season wind in Serbia)
• Viento de Levante (easterly through Strait of Gibraltar)
• Les Suêtes (western Cape Breton Highlands)
• Libeccio (southwesterly towards Italy)
• Maestro (cold northerly in the Adriatic sea)
• Marin (south-easterly from Mediterranean to France)
• Meltemi μελτέμι (Greek), or meltem (Turkish) (etesian northerly across Greece, Turkey, and Aegean sea)
• Minuano (southern Brazil)
• Mistral (cold northerly from central France and the Alps to Mediterranean)
• Monsoon (mainly south-westerly winds combined with heavy rain in various areas close to the equator)
• Nor'easter (strong storm with winds from the northeast in the eastern United States, especially New England)
• Nor'wester (wind that brings rain to the West Coast, and warm dry winds to the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island, caused by the moist prevailing winds being uplifted over the Southern Alps)
• Ostro (southerly wind in the Mediterranean)
• Pampero, (Argentina), (very strong wind which blows in the Pampa)
• Papagayo (periodic wind which blows across Nicaragua and Costa Rica and out over the Gulf of Papagayo)
• Passat, (Tropic) (medium strong, constant blowing Wind in tropical Sea-Areas)
• Plough Wind Straight line wind which precedes thunderstorms or thunderstorm clusters.^[1]
• Rasha-ba (strong wind in Iraq Kurdistan Region, particularly in Sulaimaniya. The word is Kurdish for Black-wind)
• Santa Ana winds (southern California)
• Shamal (wind) (Kurdish term, signifying a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states)
• Simoom (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in the Sahara, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia)
• Sirocco (southerly from north Africa to southern Europe)
• Southerly Buster (rapidly arriving low pressure cell that dramatically cools Sydney, Australia during summer)
• Sou'wester (strong wind which blows from the southwest, and also a type of waterproof hat designed to protect from and repel wind and rain)
• Squamish (wind) (strong, violent wind occurring in many of the fjords of British Columbia)
• Sundowner (wind), (strong offshore wind off the California coast)
• Tehuano (periodic wind which blows across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico and out over the Gulf of Tehuantepec)
• Tramontane (cold northwesterly from the Pyrenees or northeasterly from the Alps to the Mediterranean, similar to Mistral)
• Vendavel (westerly through the Strait of Gibraltar)
• Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina)