Coastal Skipper and Yachtmaster Quiz · Meteorology
This depression is going to pass to the south of you. What will the wind do as it goes by?
A weather chart, north at the top, captioned northern hemisphere. A low, marked L, is on the left, and a dashed arrow shows its track running due east across the chart. A yacht marked you lies north of that track, ahead of the low.
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Back steadily: for example south-east, then east, then north-east. Wind blows anticlockwise round a northern hemisphere low. If the centre passes south of you, you stay on its northern side and the wind backs steadily, from south-east through east to north-east and north, with no fronts to mark the change. If the centre passes north of you, the wind veers at each front instead.
