A katabatic wind originates from radiational cooling of air atop a plateau, a mountain, glacier, or even a hill.

Straight-line winds are common with the gust front of a thunderstorm or originate with a downburst from a thunderstorm.

The solar wind originates in the million-degree gases of the solar corona, the filamentous aura that is seen glowing around the sun during an eclipse.

The first is from mid-May to October, when winds originate in the southwest, bringing moisture from the Indian Ocean.

These dry winds usually originate at the eastern end of the Ranges.

This wind originates from cold polar fronts that come from the South west of South America during periods of high atmospheric pressure, usually following rains caused by the shock of the cold front with warmer stationary humid air.

The wind direction states where the wind originates.

The prevailing winds originate from the south and south-west, a consequence of the frequency with which depressions (with their anti-clockwise circulation) pass to the north of the islands.

It is on the opposite side of the stasis field from the direction in which the prevailing winds originate in this region.

The solar wind originates in the atmosphere of the Sun, and consists of a tenuous gas that has acquired sufficiently high outward speed to escape from the Sun.