{"id":8387,"date":"2024-05-26T16:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2024-05-26T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T08:48:13","slug":"whats-lee-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-lee-side\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Lee side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ref <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windward_and_leeward\">Windward and leeward &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;windward&#8221; has roots in both Low German and Old English. The word &#8220;<strong>lee<\/strong>&#8220;, which means a place without wind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windward<\/strong> is\u00a0<strong><i>upwind<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction <strong>from which the wind is coming<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeward<\/strong> is<strong> <i>downwind<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0from the point of reference, i.e., along the <strong>direction towards which the wind is going<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/75\/Upwind_downwind_example.png\" alt=\"undefined\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is quite often to see these terms in aviation related articles or textbooks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qph.cf2.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-3914f797a819bbd083b2809f2ea7c3e9-pjlq\" alt=\"Why are the leeward sides of a mountain dry? - Quora\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref Windward and leeward &#8211; Wikipedia The term &#8220;windward&#8221; has roots in both Low German and Old English. The word &#8220;lee&#8220;, which means a place without wind. Windward is\u00a0upwind\u00a0from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; Leeward is downwind\u00a0from the point of reference, i.e., along the direction towards<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-lee-side\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atpl-knowledge","category-aviation","category-meteorology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}