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When you give a weather report, you might say the wind is southeast, at 25 mph. Does this mean it is blowing to the southeast, or coming from the southeast?
Kim B.
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An oldie but a goodie, we get asked this pretty often. Wind direction is given as the direction from which the wind is blowing from. If the wind is north at 25 mph, it is blowing from the north at the given speed. If the wind is from the south, it could be a warm wind, and it's coming from the south, transporting that warmer air along with pollens from the south...be warned if you have allergies!
When we study wind direction in meteorology we also use the degrees on a circle. So a north wind would be at 360 degrees or 0 degrees while an east wind would be at 90 degrees.
Answered by KSL Meteorologist Dina Freedman
