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we were downwind of the deer, so it couldn't smell us
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Now that house is starting to produce embers for the next building downwind.
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Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
There will also be widespread areas of smoke from the fires, which will make for very poor air quality downwind of the blazes.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
California How to protect yourself from the smoke caused by L.A. wildfires
Jan. 8, 2025
Some of the worst air quality was measured downwind of the Eaton fire, which razed much of Altadena and left downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights under a pall of hazardous air.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The storm is set to move offshore today, but the National Weather Service predicted moderate to heavy lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes today and tomorrow.
—NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
There will also be widespread areas of smoke from the fires, which will make for very poor air quality downwind of the blazes.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
California How to protect yourself from the smoke caused by L.A. wildfires
Jan. 8, 2025
Some of the worst air quality was measured downwind of the Eaton fire, which razed much of Altadena and left downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights under a pall of hazardous air.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
The storm is set to move offshore today, but the National Weather Service predicted moderate to heavy lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes today and tomorrow.
—NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Downwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/downwind. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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downwind
adverb or adjective
down·wind
ˈdau̇n-ˈwind 
: in the direction that the wind is blowing
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