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Weird Winds: A map of French winds
If you do not know, France doesn't just have one or two or four winds. When you look at the winds of France, you won't just find your typical cardinal division East/West/North/South. Oh no! You will get tons and tons of winds, with all sorts of bizarre names. Each region has its own set of winds, with its own names, meteorological effects, and cultural associations. The result is that people can write entire books about the French winds just by listing them all.
I just found a little website that can serve as a good introduction to the winds of France. It is a website dedicated to learning French when you're a foreigner, and it has one tiny page about the winds of France. It notably offers this simplified map selecting fifteen winds:
Here is the list of the winds, corresponding to the numbers on the map.
Le suroît. A South wind of the Bretagne region, hot and humid.
Le nordet. A Bretagne North wind, that makes the air colder and causes downpours.
La bise. A dry and cold North wind.
La bise. (Yes, they put it twice)
Baslerwind, an Eastern wind of Alsace.
La lombarde. A dry and violent winds of the Alps and the Savoie region.
La tramontane. A violent wind of the Languedoc and the Roussillon.
Le levant. The gentle and humid East wind.
Le ponant. The (usually) soft, Mediterranean West wind.
Le sirocco. The hot wind that carries into France the Sahara sands.
Le cers. The West wind of the Roussillon region, known to scatter clouds away and bring a sunny weather. The cers is considered a componants of the tramontane.
L'autan. An often strong sea wind, that blows in the opposite direction of the tramontane in the Toulouse region and the Tarn. It can be gentler or colder depending on the places.
La tramontane. A cold and strong wind that blows in the Languedoc-Roussillon. It is also the North wind of Provence.
La galerne. A local wind of the Pays Basque, which blows by "hits" (in an irregular way). Through strong gusts, it lowers the temperature and brings rain.
Le mistral. A typical wind of Provence, which also blows in the Var region and in Corsica. It is known to usually blow several days in a row.
The website also had links to other pages that explained in greater details a handful of those winds. I'll put the explanations below:
A) Le Ponant. When it comes to regional Mediterranean winds, le Mistral or la Tramontane usually come to mind - but people tend to forget le Ponant, whose name indicates its position as the West wind. "Ponant" itself is a Latin-inherited term designating the place where the sun sets (opposing the "levant", where the sun rises), and thus in terms of winds, le ponant wind is the west wind, opposed to the Levant wind, the east wind. However, originally, the sailors used "ponant" and "levant" merely as cardinal directions (West/East), and by extension to designate the two bodies of water they travelled across: the Ponant was the Atlantic Ocean, the Levant the Mediterranean Sea. As such, the French sailors called the "Ponant ports" towns such as Brest or La Rochelle, and "Levant ports" Marseille or Sète. It was only afterward that the two terms came to designate the East and West winds.
The Ponant is a western wind with southern components. It is usually soft and gentle, especially when it blows from the south-west, even though it can be strong on the Balearic area. While it blows all year long, it is most present during spring and autumn.
B) Autan. The autan wind is known for its violence by the inhabitants of the Tarn and Toulouse regions. It is even often called "the mad wind" or the "insane wind". The Autan is one of the three local winds of the Occitanie region, alongside the Tramontane and the Marin. While it is mostly focused on Tarn and Toulouse, it can sometimes touch Quercy and Rouerge. The autan is actually the prolongation of the sea-wind blowing on the coasts of the Languedoc-Roussillon. The "triangle" between which the Autan is the most common is formed by Toulouse, Castelnaudary and Castres. It forms the opposite of the tramontane, which comes from the Mediterranean sea. The autan wind can go from 10 km per hour to 90 km per hour in the span of just two hours, and it can come back several times throughout the year.
Legend claims that the autan wind drives people mad - the superstition seems to come from the fact that the autan wind is very local, meaning in a precise area it can blow very strongly, while it is still and peaceful right next door. This is because the Autan is created by the presence of the Pyrénées, the wind being "channeled" by a series of valleys (the Agout valley, the Tarn valley, the Lauragais-Garonne). When the wind arrives from the Mediterranean sea, it is very humid, but by the foehn effect it dries up by going over the Corbières and the Black mountain - and it is only once the wind is dried up that it becomes the "autan". There are actually two types of autan according to local beliefs, the "white" autan and the "black" autan. [Note: the website unfortunately does not give the exact difference between the two]
C) Le Cers. "Le cers" is actually one of the oldest, if not THE oldest wind-name in the French language. Blowing from west to east, this wind regulates and rules the weather of the Languedoc-Roussillon region - more precisely of its western half. This wind, that removes the rain and scatters the clouds, blowing on all season, usually three days by four, is what gives to the region is very sunny and shining weather, and it is thus considered a "healthy" wind. You can even see how the Cers sculpted the region: the trees of the area are all leaning to the east! And the old houses of the area all are turned with their back towards the cers, to prevent heating problems. All the gardens, great openings, pools, terraces and other things of the sort are placed east. The cers is not a mountain wind, but a plain wind, that passes between the Massif central and the Pyrénées, through Naurouze. On the Golfe du Lion, there is absolutely no north wind - only the cers that blows from inside the lands. On the heights of Saint-Cyr, near the towns of Ouveillan and Sallèles-d'Aude, you can find a former Roman temple that was built to the god Circius - aka, the Latin embodiment of the cers wind... And this temple seems to be located precisely at the center of what is known as the sunniest area of all France.
D) La galerne is a well known phenomenon of the Pays Basque region, called "enbata" by the locals, and the terror of the sailors. A "coup de galerne" (a galerne hit) is a brief and local phenomenon of the Pays Basque coasts, which sometimes extends itself to the south of the Garonne region. You recognize a galerne by the sudden degradation of the atmospheric conditions, and a brutal drop in temperature. The wind suddenly blows from the north-west, and it can blow really hard, up to a 100 km per hour and above. All of this is usually happening alongside a gathering of clouds, and outbursts of rain. The galerne can hit all year long, but is most frequent between spring and summer, usually between April and September.
The galerne starts out as a little movement of cold air coming from the Golfe de Cascogne. This movement of the air, carried on by winds, becomes stronger thanks to the mountains that cover the Spanish coasts (the Cantabrique mounts). These mountains force the wind to go towards the Pays Basque, while strengthening it - without these mountains, there wouldn't be any galerne. Since this air comes from the sea, it is colder than the local Basque air, which comes from inland. This is what causes the brutal drop in temperatures - and of course, the humidity of the galerne is also because it is carried from the sea.
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The return of air jail.
Whatever he did, Warriors absolutely deserves this and I hope Wind has fun 😌
#responsible parenting with your local forest gremlin Time#lu fanart#linked universe#my art#artist of tumblr#tumblr artist#fanart#sketchbook#colored pencils#watercolors#tloz au#lu time#lu warriors#lu wind#time linked universe#warriors linked universe#wind linked universe#loz oot#loz ww#loz hw#last sketch in this book#pls ignore that I forgot to paint Time’s right arm thanks#linked universe fanart#linked universe fandom#art
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complete the group!!!!!!!!!!!
#rain world#rainworld#rw chasing wind#rw unparalleled innocence#rw looks to the moon#rw five pebbles#rw no significant harassment#rw iterator#rw local group#bunny's art#bunny's ocs#minor inconvenience#dont mind how i slide MI in like shes canon <3333333333#my mind has solidified them as real okay
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taking matters into my own hands and giving us the gongaga we deserved
#me? gongaga more like MY gongaga. it's mine now. since squeenix can't be trusted.#god forbid they allow worldbuilding in this series#the rainy foggy atmosphere from the og is very important to me... i brought back the purple hue that stuck with me from my first playthrough#and i made the houses cramped and small like the og too#plus the architecture now takes the local climate more into consideration. downpour harsh winds hot and humid etc.#ideally they would be thatch houses but i wanted to keep the original brick because it's memorable#also i gave cissnei an outfit that doesn't make me want to bonk my eyeballs with a toy hammer#though i let her keep some of the Belts That Do Nothing#sotetsu's design is almost identical to canon. to drive home the point that cissnei did NOT have to look like that LMAO#so YEAH! deleting rebirth gongaga from my brain and replacing it with this version now. jsyk#ffvii#cissnei#sotetsu#my art <3
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One of them knows how to install a doorknob.
#what if we were young and powerful witches and I gave you a portal to my place as a housewarming gift#which could mean nothing#(I know it's not specifically to her place but SHHH)#local cottagecore lesbian and her high femme gf#*grabs your face* listen to me what if they were exes#what if they had a thing when Indri joined the coven that failed as they each assumed more and more their station#and tbh as Indri started her murder plot#anyways I want to believe they fucked#and somewhere in her cold heart Indri has some memories concealed#and she's been bitter about wren stalling and opposing her for so long#do you see the vision#wbn#won pod#worlds beyond number fanart#the wizard the witch and the wild one#indri#morning wrensong#granmother wren#worlds beyond number#wwwo fanart#wwwo#coven of elders#witch of the world's heart#witch of the wind and stars#what would be their ship name#witch of the wind's heart? lmao#can't resist that 5'2 baddie#this is very simple and not rendered and I wanted it to be a fun quick thing so I have to be ok with it not being perfect#there will maybe be more art of them coming up so yeah maybe more rendering there#for now let's see if people are on board with this ship
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told you guys ive been plagued by the analogue horror fixation again
#GRAAHH religious bug boy grrrr#i have no clue why im so drawn to religious media ; neither me not my family is religious#for colin i was inspired by the scene where all the regnad comuters were covered in the the the#also i cant believe that im just now realizing that regnad is danger spelled backwards but i digress#i know tony's is like rlly cringey n stuff but like trust me he really does fit trust i swear im srs i promise please trust me i swearimnotl#also i did have fun with the lars one#he was just silly ahaha#oh yeah if you don't know which one lars is for its local 58 btw :33#ill spare you the long winded vent this time around#last time i tried to share my feelings on this platform someone that i care about was concerned about my wellbeing#and people actually caring about me is the last thing i want haha#just indulge in the content i make ; my personality is quite lackluster and im not a good person ahaha X3#dhmis#dhmis art#dhmis au#high voltage au#dhmis shrignold#shrignold the butterfly#dhmis hv shrignold#dhmis colin#colin the computer#dhmis hv colin#dhmis tony#tony the talking clock#dhmis hv tony#dhmis lamp#larry the lamp#dhmis hv larry#analogue horror#crossover art
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off string designs for visceral growths. puppets actually built for moving around!!!
myths is technically already an "off string model" so i won't draw her design :p but here's the others
since they can't function without their neurons they have tiny ones inside of their body!!! i could go on about the functions. thinking about this stuff is so interesting to me.
rambles below the cut
ok so uhm the main thing i had to keep in mind with their off string design was mobility. OBVIOUSLY. their legs are built the way they are for the sake of traversing through harsh, bumpy and uneven terrain (for a multitude of purposes. i think in general their ancients would just want them to be mobile for important meetings and even in case of emergencies! ancients thinking about the future that DOESN'T involve mass ascension ... unheard of) and have springs based off the "prototype"'s (myths.) feet to absorb impact when falling. fields especially has a special ability to jump higher from the added mechanisms he has in his legs :]
their feet are talon-like for the sake of grip and their legs are generally very agile despite their chunky design! with multiple joints that allow for flexibility. their hips are also built to allow their legs to stretch to the side and whatnot. they're just very flexible in general.
now for my favorite part!!! the jelly-like substance that each of their puppets has acts as their "blood". despite being considered iterator blood it isn't fluid, and is comparable to the texture of the silicone from a breast implant—doesn't spill, is a great regulator for heat, and prevents any possible damage to their innards !!! the ancients figured that they'd need their neurons to function properly sooo they just shrunk down copies of their data into tinier neurons and just. filled em up with them. the neurons float around freely inside of them.
i also think that their cores are somewhere inside their torsos like a real heart, protected by the silicone. they also have a bunch of wires and functions inside that require frequent coolant so they probably have a bottle for it somewhere along their back that can be taken out at any given moment.
i think that's all i have to ramble about so far. they're so neat and fun to think about and ough. they're just like their superstructures fr fr <333 I'll probably yap more later but for now that's all
#theyre so cute to me i think#i need to rip them open and drink all of their lite juice#theyre like the gushers candy. I'm hungry#rainworld#rain world#art#rw iterator#iterator oc#off string au#visceral growths local group#hope among the winds (hatw)#flare of shards (fos)#fields(comma) vast and fruitful (fvaf)#boundless prosperity (bp)#buggies rainworld oc rambles
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Just two people talking about the aerodynamics of heroes. XD
Part of the reason I liked Groose as a character from the first meeting was that his musical theme has a very similar vibe to Windwaker’s pirates’, who are very dear to my heart.
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tfw when your daughter adopts an alien without consulting you
bonus:
#listen LISTEN#THERE HAD TO BE DRAGONS PREMATURELY EJECTED FROM THE ASTROLAB#AETHERS FALLING OUTTA THE SKY ALL OVER SORNIETH#BOOM AN ANCIENT LANDS IN YOUR HOARD. THEY LIVE WITH YOU NOW#when i get a non permababy aether#im Also making their lore 'fell outta the sky and joined the nearest group'#scribble salad#dragons#flight rising#flight rising fanart#fr coatl#fr aether#originally Ziociro (the aether) was a nocturne that got lost on notn#& flick (bby coatl) decides that they were sisters#BUT I GOT MY MITTS ON AN AETHER BREED CHANGE AND IT WORKED A LOT BETTER THAN A NOCTURNE#local single father not prepared for this. new daughter aquired#stg if the wind ancient doesnt blow my socks off im switching flights to arcane#aether wins best dragon 2k23
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I’ll have you all know I just picked up the book, read that it takes place in Australia and is by an Australian author, and put it in my basket to purchase it without even reading the rest.
#I did read the back and it did wind up looking good afterwards#but I was sold way before that#I exclusively read books by local authors in Aus and they were all the best books I’ve ever read so)#idc I have no critical thinking skills Australia = objective good
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I know Skyrim would have just exploded if they did this, but I’m visually playing with this concept, but if they made Alduin Bigger, like substantially, blanketing the sky in some areas like an oppressive heavy cloud moving in he would have been so much more intimidating and they would have likely had to do something other than “Dragon number 34838947394 but in special nord heaven this time”
#Wasted potential! Local dragon enthusiast is mad about it#vena vents#not art#He should be able to herald that sense of doom of looking at storm clouds that are almost pitch black and too quiet#You think you see the silhouette of his tail weaving through the snow wind and fog high in the mountains#he would be long enough to wrap around and strangle and mar a mountain if he wanted to
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my updated iterator lineup for use in a project somewhat soon...
#rainworld#rain world#rw looks to the moon#rw five pebbles#rw no significant harassment#rw seven red suns#rw unparalleled innocence#rw chasing wind#rw iterator#rain world downpour#bunny's art#bunny's ocs#minor inconvenience#the lttm local group and their pet outsider who gets all up in their business#oh and#mspaint#tho for this i was going back and forth between csp and mspaint so i could do the drawing in mspaint and all the colorpicking in csp
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Now, if George was smart? He'd be working on finishing up Winds asap and coast on HOTD's downfall, cause a press run full of shade toward unfaithful adaptions would have book readers and locals alike tuned in
#if I was his publisher/agent I'd be on his ass about finishing always but especially right now#cause even locals are getting tired of the poor writing and comparing it to the GOT finale#and book readers have /been/ over HOTD and desperately theorizing that he's close to finishing#him being so obvious about calling out the writers is funny but I need him to sit down and get to writing#the only thing to be done at this point is release Winds and show them what good nuanced fantasy writing looks like#if he can write that much in a blog post to clarify his canon being disrespected then he can finish Winds#as always I'm blindly optimistic cause I want that book bad and I'm choosing to believe that he's made progress 🫶🏾#we still have half a year for a 2024 announcement and 2025 release 😁
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Messy ass relationship chart wooooooo!!! Local Group (LTTM) (and Suns)
These are all headcanons. Ft my Unparalleled Innocence and Chasing/Gray Wind designs!
Rambles below the cut
I am a sunstone enjoyer, but realistically, I think suns would try to keep their relationship platonic and professional. They feel responsible for pebbles, so they won’t let their feelings get in the way.
Yes, pebbles loves and respects moon. Yes, his self-destructive spiral hurt her anyway. Tragic siblings my beloved
I’m also a milkshake enjoyer. Me when two autistic characters fundamentally misunderstand each other and clash because their traits happen to grate against each other
#rain world#rw iterator#Shen’s rambles#rw headcanons#Shen’s headcanons#rw sunstone#rw milkshake#rw looks to the moon#rw seven red suns#rw no significant harassment#rw unparalleled innocence#rw grey wind#rw chasing wind#rw five pebbles#rw lttm#rw srs#rw nsh#suns is from a different local group#which is why they and moon are kinda distant yet respectful
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Participants in the Sloop Providence's crew exchange with the Mildred Belle swing by our ship on the way to National Harbor, Maryland, 10/14/24
#audio on this one is mostly just the wind the engine and us yapping lol#and a damn plane since we were also in the local airport's flight path#sloop providence#tall ship providence#uss providence#tall ship#tall ships#tall ships america#mildred belle#historic vessel#historic replica#18th century#bermuda sloop#privateer#american revolution#american war of independence#tales from the sea
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I like to think that melone BEGGED risotto to take him to a metal concert at some point and there was a moment where Risotto lost track of melone for exactly ONE second before he turned around and saw melone getting DRAGGED into a mosh pit
Risotto had to barrel through the crowd to get melone back to safety and melone spent the rest of the concert being held by Risotto like a ferret
#if risotto had waited any longer melone would have been hurled elsewhere in the crowd#tfw your super skinny and lanky teammate CANNOT keep himself out of danger#they ended that night with a brief trip to the local pharmacist to see if melone was okay#jjba#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba part 5#golden wind#vento aureo#jjba melone#melone jjba#melone#risotto nero
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