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07-07-2015, 07:06 AM
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Winds

I may have asked this before - if so, I apologise because I cannot remember the answer.

Is a West (or whatever) wind coming from or going to the West ?
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07-07-2015, 09:13 AM
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ST the west wind comes from the west as spoken of in Masefield's poem ...


IT'S a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills.
And April's in the west wind, and daffodils.
Masefield came from Ledbury in Herefordshire near here and when I stand on the Malvern Hills looking west to the Black Mountains with a west wind blowing I know why he had tears in his eyes...
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07-07-2015, 09:22 AM
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You need one of those whizzy round things with a cock on it to be sure!
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07-07-2015, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA ->
You need one of those whizzy round things with a cock on it to be sure!
A weather vane!
I was thinking that. But then I couldn't remember if the cockerel is facing towards or away from the direction of the wind!
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07-07-2015, 03:45 PM
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I think his beak point where it's going...
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07-07-2015, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA ->
You need one of those whizzy round things with a cock on it to be sure!
OOOh ... get thee behind me temptation !
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Originally Posted by ruthio ->
A weather vane!
I was thinking that. But then I couldn't remember if the cockerel is facing towards or away from the direction of the wind!
Perhaps that is why I end up confused!
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07-07-2015, 06:31 PM
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Re: Winds

Originally Posted by Meg ->
ST the west wind comes from the west as spoken of in Masefield's poem ...




Masefield came from Ledbury in Herefordshire near here and when I stand on the Malvern Hills looking west to the Black Mountains with a west wind blowing I know why he had tears in his eyes...
LOL! Thank you, Meg - I will try and remember that verse.
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07-07-2015, 07:34 PM
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Any wind in the West could be me, sorry!
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07-07-2015, 07:34 PM
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According to the great God Wikipedia the cockerel and the arrow point to the source of the wind.
So...if it's pointing -------> N it's a northerly wind
 
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