GR translation: set on a low hill for the wind

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Robert.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> That’s how I understand it.
>
> See, e.g.,
> https://extension.usu.edu/forestry/publications/utah-forest-facts/005-windbreak-benefits-and-design
>
> Orientation
>
> Windbreaks should be oriented at right angles to the prevailing wind
> direction to protect the greatest land area. Remember that prevailing wind
> directions may vary between summer and winter. Use multiple-leg windbreaks
> in areas with variable-direction winds to give the most protection. In
> hilly areas, locate windbreaks just upwind of the hill crest for greatest
> benefit. Placing a windbreak on the crest will result in a small protected
> area because of extreme low pressure and turbulence created on the downwind
> and downhill side.
>
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2025, at 9:16 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> V462.6-9, P469.32-35   The Anubis moves now through star-lit countryside,
> the horizon broken now and then by silhouettes of a windmill, haycocks, a
> row of pig arks, some line of trees set on a low hill for the wind. . . .
>
> Here "for the wind" means the trees were planted for the purpose of
> sheltering against the wind, is that correct?
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