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“In a large-scale disaster like that, when you have a wind shift, you’re receiving the information and trying your best to make the best decisions possible,” Augustin said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

According to @NWS a wind shift has caused smoke from the NC wildfires to migrate widely.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Forestry Service spokesman Stuart Morris said the town had reopened Thursday, but a wind shift expected later Thursday could pose a new threat.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2022

Its most traditional use is to describe the large-scale wind shift into the Indian subcontinent from the ocean that coincides with intense summer rains there.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

She can watch the wind shift the drifts of snow trapped in the courtyard behind me.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson