11.   It is able to measure surface wind direction and speed which, in turn, are used by weather forecasters in predicting the movement and strength of hurricanes.

12.   It uses the current surface air temperature and surface wind speed.

13.   Meanwhile, sporadic showers will dampen the Washington and northern Oregon coasts as moist, onshore surface winds persist.

14.   North of such a front, surface winds blow from the northeast, while, to the south, winds blow from southwest.

15.   Oddly, the surface winds across most of this region were from the northeast, or the interior of Europe.

16.   On Friday, Tropical Storm Floyd was upgraded to a hurricane, yet no measurement of its surface winds was taken.

17.   On Saturday morning, surface winds will already have shifted, blowing from the south-southeast, in response to a jet stream disturbance approaching from the Rockies.

18.   On Monday, humidity levels steadily mounted along the western Gulf of Mexico coast as building surface winds from the south transported tropical air inland.

19.   One possibility, said Stute, is that surface winds in glacial times could have muddled the ocean record.

20.   Surface winds from the south feed the storm, kicking up dust as they rush to the dark belly of the sky.