The Mistral is a cold, dry, northwest wind that funnels along the lower Rhône river valley in France towards the Mediterranean coast, from northeastern Spain to northwestern Italy.
Chinook winds are warm, dry, generally westerly winds that occur in western North America. They can cause extreme increases in temperatures within a few hours.
Unique to Switzerland, the Bise is a cold, dry wind that sweeps through the Swiss Plateau and is fierce enough to turn the normally placid waters of Lake Geneva into a bubbling cauldron.
The aptly named Diablo is a hot, dry wind that circulates in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California in the spring and fall.
The Pampero is a burst of extremely dry and very cold polar air that blasts its way across the pampas in the south of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
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