Weather blog: Storm direction versus wind direction

One question Chief Meteorologist Brian Neudorff has been asked many times the past couple of days is, “If the snow storm is coming from the west, why is the wind blowing from the east?”

Measuring Winds to Help Predict the Weather

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National Forecast Maps