wind shift

Example Sentences

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“In a large-scale disaster like that, when you have a wind shift, you’re receiving the information and trying your best to make the best decisions possible,” Augustin said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

According to @NWS a wind shift has caused smoke from the NC wildfires to migrate widely.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Its most traditional use is to describe the large-scale wind shift into the Indian subcontinent from the ocean that coincides with intense summer rains there.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

In Texas, the wind shift led to three of the state’s deaths.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

And the watchers on the shore saw the wind shift, the waves subside, and the Greek ship leave the harbor, flying under full sail to the sea beyond.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton