westerly

If the wind decided to blow to the south instead of the normal westerly, Tokyo would be uninhabitable. Also same subduction fault that the earthquake was on runs down the coast off shore of Tokyo.

Just from eyeballing the speed charts, there seems to be about a 70mph difference on average, corresponding to average westerly winds of half that.

That instead of a cold arctic surrounded by permanent westerly winds the winds will shift so the coldest area is somewhere in North America during the northern winter. That's just speculation at this point.

So it's like saying a car in LA being towed a block north-westerly is being towed towards New York. The article also seems to get judgemental/whiny that I wonder if it's an opinion piece, a blog post, or a terribly non-journalistic article.

You'll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken.

A bit of crowd-pleasing might not be a bad thing; after all, nobody thinks of Christopher Columbus as 'the man who failed to discover a westerly trade route to India'.

> “The utter remoteness of the islands at the north-westerly limits of the Ocean and the barbarian nature of their inhabitants was a commonplace or topos in the work of Roman poets and historians. ….

In fact we went from living in a small region of Africa to spanning from the Arctic to Antarctic and from the most westerly point to the most easterly point on the map. In fact, humans are currently the only species to ever expand off the surface of the planet.

A few years ago very hot dry and windy conditions created by north westerly desert air precipitated major bush fires ripping through the area, killing a few people. Fire fighting in these area is very hard, so they were essentially unstoppable.

Interconnecting to nearby nations to move mainly westerly wind power eastwards, and mainly southerly solar northwards. Yet it's still worthwhile for Romania to be adding wind generation.

While wind is generally westerly in the US, it varies a lot hour-to-hour. Combine this with the above and I'd suspect real-world benefit is in the 1-2% range, at which point the added complexity of maintenance and production probably cancels out the benefit.

Nobody may think of Columbus as 'the man who failed to discover a westerly trade route to India', however some may think of him as foreshadowing the European colonization of the "New World"- thereby destroying and exploiting many indigenous people, or others may think of Columbus as the man who brought Syphilis back to Europe. Those would be pragmatic historical perspectives of Columbus...