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How many local winds are there and which are they?
Local winds are winds that blow over a limited area. Local winds blow between small low and high pressure systems. These are produced locally due to heating and cooling or temperature differences at the earth's surface. Local winds repeat themselves under similar weather conditions. An example of this could be the slope and valley winds in a large valley. They also tend to be short-lived lasting typically several hours to a day. There are many such winds around the world, some of them cold, some warm, some wet, some dry.

The main types of local winds are Sea breezes and land breezes, Anabatic and katabatic winds, and Foehn winds.

Chinook is a local wind which is warm dry  and occurs westerly off the Rocky Mountains.
Loo is hot and dry wind which blows over plains of India and pakistan.
Mistral is cold northerly wind from central France and the Alps to Mediterranean.


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