Downwind

As the boat is going downwind, the apparent wind is less than the true wind and this, allied to the fact that the sails are not producing aerodynamic lift, serves to limit the downwind speed.

It is also less successful sailing downwind; the addition of a spinnaker is necessary for faster downwind speed in all but the strongest winds, and the spinnaker is an intrinsically unstable sail requiring continuous trimming.

Additionally, these efficiencies may generate benefits for consumers downwind.

AIRMET Tango will remain in place for low level turbulence over and downwind of island mountains today and these conditions will likely continue into tonight.

As SO is released from the summit, it will react in the atmosphere to create the visible haze known as vog (volcanic smog) that has been observed downwind of Kīlauea.

BACKGROUND: Pele's hair covering the ground in the area immediately downwind of Halema‘uma‘u crater during the lava lake eruption of 2008–2018.

Fires would occasionally be burning away quietly at various places sending an often-noxious plume of smoke downwind.

Remarks: Smoke from a forest fire near Tantallon has reduced visibility and air quality in the area downwind of the fire.

AIRMET Tango remains in effect for moderate low-level turbulence over and downwind of the island terrain.

As is normal for downwind surf-ski races, the organisers have been closely monitoring the volatile weekend weather predictions.

Increased trade wind speeds could bring the potential for low- level turbulence downwind of the terrain today.

Snow was forecast downwind of the Great Lakes and over parts of the central Appalachians and the Northeast through Sunday evening.

The most extreme measurements were recorded on the New York border with Canada, near the town of Freedonia—downwind and about an hour and half fromEast Palestine.

They say that when the shellfish waste is delivered on weekday mornings, they cover it up as quickly as they can, but they can’t guarantee that the odors won’t drift downwind to neighbors during the process.

While on the downwind leg, they thought that a slower aircraft was in front of them so they slowed down.

Yet the high court’s order, “leaves large swaths of upwind States free to keep contributing significantly to their downwind neighbors’ ozone problems for the next several years,” she wrote.

He told the European Tour's : "I hit a good tee shot last night, which was slightly downwind.

I'd hate to be downwind from that fire.

On Monday, a westerly breeze spared most of them the stink of hog manure that radiates from the slaughterhouse and its wastewater lagoons, but Juan Ventura’s home is downwind.

She got five yards downwind and immediately hit a wall of scent.