North wind

A north wind is a wind that originates in the north and blows south. The north wind has had historical and literal significance, since it often signals cold weather and seasonal change in the Northern hemisphere.

Quotes

• The north wind is a satisfying wind.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection IV at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
  • Proverbs 25:23 (KJV)

• Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
  • Song of Songs 4:16 (KJV)

• Blow, northerne wynd,
  Sent thou me my suetyng!
  Blow, northerne wynd,
  Blou! Blou! Blou!
  • Harley Lyrics, 46, chorus

• This winter’s weather it waxeth cold,
    And frost it freezeth on every hill,
  And Boreas blows his blast so bold
    That all our cattle are like to spill.
  • Anonymous, "The Old Cloak" (16th century), st. 1, as reported in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

• Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
  Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
  Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains,
  Draughts of life to me.
  • Dinah Craik, "North Wind" in Poems (1866)

See also

• Air
• Flight
• East wind
• Ninlil
• South wind
• Storm
• Tornado
• Weather
• West wind
• Wind waves
• Zephyr