#prevailing_wind the predominant wind direction; "the prevailing wind is from the southwest"
supertype: wind air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"
subtype: antitrades wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds
subtype: trade_wind__tradewind__trade steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator; "they rode the trade winds going west"
subtype: antitrade_wind__antitradewind__antitrade winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
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