Weather - Wind direction?

[Shaun]

When a weather report says, for example, a mild North-easterly wind - is that the direction the wind is travelling in, or where it is coming from?

In the above example would the wind travel bottom-left to top-right, or the other way around?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

It's irrelevant.

Which ever way you ride it will be a headwind, which mysteriously has a 180 degree change of direction when you head for home.

 

[Keith Oates]

It will be the direction that the wind is coming from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[Globalti]

But Mild and North-Easterly don't usually go together......

 

[Paulus]

But Mild and North-Easterly don't usually go together......

from that direction it is normally always cold.

 

[martint235]

It's irrelevant.

Which ever way you ride it will be a headwind, which mysteriously has a 180 degree change of direction when you head for home.

It's not just me then!!

 

[vernon]

Which ever way you ride it will be a headwind, which mysteriously has a 180 degree change of direction when you head for home.

That's commonly known as wind coming from an againsterly direction.

 

[Telemark]

as Keith says, it's the direction the wind comes from

Think "a cold northerly" coming from the frozen north , whereas a "balmy southerly" comes from the places where are people melting in the sunshine, like all over southern England ...

T

 

[albion]

My Sunday ride to Stanhope had a disagreeable headwind.Yet on some of my route back on some more shaded uphill sections I almost instantly blew gasket. Heading higher and higher towards Stanhope was certainly a wonderful choice on a balmy hot day.