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Polluting factors should not be developed near vulnerable communities, and in the meantime, pregnant women would benefit from staying away from polluting sites (like downwind of highways) as much as possible.
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Jeremy Ney, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
Elsewhere, heavy lake effect snow could dump between 1 and 3 feet in the Great Lakes through tomorrow night, particularly downwind of Lakes Eerie and Ontario.
—NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
The observatory said gases released by the eruption will cause volcanic smog downwind of Kilauea.
—CBS News, 11 Sep. 2023
Areas downwind of the Great Lakes had some of the greatest snowfall deficits due to a lack of lake-effect snow.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
Snowfall deficits are extreme downwind of the Great Lakes where Syracuse, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, are each missing nearly 5 feet of snow.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
Heavy lake-effect snow is expected downwind of the Great Lakes through the middle of the week, and is expected to bring with it whiteout conditions, according to the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.
—NBC News, 15 Jan. 2024
Hunters will typically first position the blind or layout boat and then set the spread slightly downwind, leaving runways that serve both as boat travel routes and bird funnels.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
That’s a rate of only 5.5 percent, with many of the encounters occurring downwind.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2024
Jeremy Ney, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
Elsewhere, heavy lake effect snow could dump between 1 and 3 feet in the Great Lakes through tomorrow night, particularly downwind of Lakes Eerie and Ontario.
—NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
The observatory said gases released by the eruption will cause volcanic smog downwind of Kilauea.
—CBS News, 11 Sep. 2023
Areas downwind of the Great Lakes had some of the greatest snowfall deficits due to a lack of lake-effect snow.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
Snowfall deficits are extreme downwind of the Great Lakes where Syracuse, New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, are each missing nearly 5 feet of snow.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
Heavy lake-effect snow is expected downwind of the Great Lakes through the middle of the week, and is expected to bring with it whiteout conditions, according to the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.
—NBC News, 15 Jan. 2024
Hunters will typically first position the blind or layout boat and then set the spread slightly downwind, leaving runways that serve both as boat travel routes and bird funnels.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
That’s a rate of only 5.5 percent, with many of the encounters occurring downwind.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2024
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downwind
adverb or adjective
down·wind
ˈdau̇n-ˈwind 
: in the direction that the wind is blowing
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