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Old 8th May 2008, 17:15
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Given that you have Brimmond, Elrick and Tyrebagger hills arranged along the western and south western sides of the airfield at Dyce that directionality is as expected.

However take for instance Shetland where there is precious little shelter from anything and the good old SW predominate. (As they do down along the Angus coast)
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