Upwind in a sentence

His final baseball season will begin Monday when East Palestine hosts Wellsville High at a turf field 5 miles (8 kilometers) up the road — and typically upwind — of the cleanup that is still likely months from being completed.

There was a small swale that I lowered myself into and crawled along, hidden from view and upwind.

Wilson actually made a fine start to the final only to head much further out than her two rivals on the second upwind leg.

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.

People are then advised to move to a safe fuel-free location such as a car park, upwind of the fire.

The 49erFX fleet finished their second race going upwind on what was supposed to be a downwind and Meech had to watch a number of boats slip past him when he was forced to execute a 720-degree penalty turn right on the finish line.

A boat can be 'worked to windward', to arrive at an upwind destination, by sailing close-hauled with the wind coming from one side, then tacking (turning the boat through the eye of the wind) and sailing with the wind coming from the other side.

Camps and command posts should also be located upwind of wildfires.

Dome dunes are rare and occur at the far upwind margins of sand seas.

In general sailing, tacking is the safer method and preferred especially when sailing upwind; in windsurfing, Jibing is preferred as this involves much less manoeuvring for the sailor.

In plan view, these are U-shaped or V-shaped mounds of well-sorted, very fine to medium sand with elongated arms that extend upwind behind the central part of the dune.

On an upwind course in a small boat, the crew typically sit forward to reduce drag.

Simple parabolic dunes have only one set of arms that trail upwind, behind the leading nose.

Tahiti was upwind from Bligh's initial position, and was the obvious destination of the mutineers.

The collision occurs at the termination shock, which is roughly 80–100 AU from the Sun upwind of the interstellar medium and roughly 200 AU from the Sun downwind.

These feature a long upwind section to accurately represent the wind speed and turbulence profile acting on the structure.

They must tack (turn the boat through the eye of the wind) back and forth in order to progress directly upwind (see below "Beating" ).

This angle is half of the tacking angle and defines one side of a 'no-go zone' into the wind, in which a vessel cannot sail directly. citation Tacking is essential when sailing upwind.

Understanding the Atlantic gyre and the volta do mar enabled Portuguese mariners who sailed south and southwest towards the Canary Islands and West Africa to beat upwind to the Strait of Gibraltar and home.