Wind direction is reported by the direction from which it originates. For example, a northerly wind blows from the north to the south. Wind direction is usually reported in cardinal directions or in azimuth degrees.For example, a wind coming from the south is given as 180 degrees; one from the east is 90 degrees.or example, a northerly wind blows from the north to the south. Wind direction is usually reported in cardinal directions or in azimuth degrees. For example, a wind coming from the south is given as 180 degrees; one from the east is 90 degrees.
An estimated 9 million Americans -- or nearly 4 percent of the total population -- say they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new report released this week from the Williams Institute, a think-tank devoted to LGBT research at UCLA.
Gary Gates, an LGBT demographer at the University of California Los Angeles School of Lawâs Williams Institute, came up with the most frequently cited (yet greatly limited) estimates of the countryâs transgender population: 700,000, or about 0.3 percent of adults.The figure comes from two surveys.