Poniente, Levante … These are the most frequent winds of the Peninsula

On days of a lot of wind, with activated alerts and citizens who have to monitor, for example, their terraces, it is usual to listen to the journalistic chronicles that we suffer episodes because of a strong wind of Levante … from section … or Mistral.

And, with so many kilometers of coast and being the protagonist of our orography a peninsula, it is normal for us to whip different gusts depending on the differences in atmospheric pressure, the place or the time of the year. But, Do we know which of those winds are the most frequent and, therefore, the best known? There goes a list.

Section

This wind from the North affects the Catalan coast and the Balearic Islands. The Pyrenees serve as an acceleration zone, so gusts are usually strong and low temperatures.

Levant

Who has not heard about this wind on a beach in Cádiz? It comes from the East and is also common throughout the Mediterranean coast. It is known for its high degree of humidity and for being especially strong in the area of ​​the sea of ​​Alborán and in the area of ​​the Strait of Gibraltar. It is also usually sticky and annoying.

West

In the same Cadiz coast it is known to be together with the opposite of the Levante: soft, cold, much less humid (it is lost as it enters Spain) and less annoying. It comes from the West, from the Atlantic, so it affects that side of the Peninsula.

Mistral

In Aragon it is more popular to call it from deer. It comes from the northwest and is usually cold, dry and strong

Sirocco

Used colloquially to define a start of madness, it is known as Xaloc and comes from southeast. It is dry and warm by the sand of the Sahara that usually drags. When we hear about a calima or red powder in suspension behind it is this wind as guilty.

Gregal

It comes from the northeast, they usually “suffer” it in the Balearic Islands. It is characterized by being cold and dry when coming from Europe.

Ostro or noon

The Ostro wind comes from the south and is also known as noon wind or midforn in the Mediterranean area. Warm and humid.

Lebeche

This is the southwest wind that causes the storms of the Atlantic during spring and autumn. It can also drag suspended powder from North Africa.

Galerna

Violent and sudden storm that occurs in the sea, near the coast, and that is characterized by its intensity and speed. They know him out of the Cantabrian.