Most Mediterranean cultures used to have names for at least eight winds, each at 45 degrees from each other. Greeks (and therefore Romans) used twelve, at 30 degrees.
Here’s a classic navigator’s wind rose, for instance, with 32 different named winds / directions (might be a bit hard to read on dark backgrounds, here’s the original SVG):
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4am@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We do, they’re just combinations of the 90 degree ones.
Southwest. North-Northeast.
Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah, there are 32 named points on a compass, one every 11.25 degrees, you can even fractionalize it to get even more granular
Southwest by west half west for example is 242 degrees