Norte
Under Norte always understands wind from northern directions. Nortes are known in different parts of the world.
In northern Spain, for example, there are cold downdrafts from the snow-covered mountain ranges of the Pyrenees in winter . In Argentina, the Nortes occur as warm, humid north winds on the front of low-pressure areas (analogous to a trough front-side southwest flow in Europe). In North America, as cold Northers , they can bring about sharp drops in temperature in the southern states if they replace the warm air from the region around the Gulf of Mexico within hours . Then the temperature can drop by more than 30 ° C from one day to the next. Mostly they are triggered by a high pressure area over the Great Basin .