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A satellite view of a wind farm called Windpark Fryslân in the Netherlands.

World’s Largest Freshwater Wind Farm

August 5, 2023 by Caitlin Dempsey

The world’s largest freshwater wind farm is the 89-turbine installation in Lake Ijssel located south of the Wadden Sea in the Netherlands.

The colours of the twelve winds constructed from the description in the Saltair na Rann. From: A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 1906.

Medieval Irish and Colorful Winds

July 1, 2021June 15, 2017 by Caitlin Dempsey

Medieval Ireland attributed a different color for each of the cardinal and ordinal directions of the wind.

This The natural-color MODIS image shows the dust as it moved from North Africa, swept northeast over the Mediterranean Sea, and blanketed the atmosphere over Turkey and Greece. Source: NASA

Lodos (Wind)

December 28, 2021February 11, 2015 by Joe Akintola

The Lodos has been classified as a powerful south westerly wind (blowing from the south west) that can be found at regular intervals throughout the year in the Marmara Sea and Aegean Sea, as well as the Black Sea and Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.