When the wind is from the west, the weather is at its best.
When the wind is from the east, it is good for neither man nor beast.
This is generally true for us on the east coast of the USA.
Not a bad saying for most places in the USA.
I get storms out of the West & East - in the spring an East storm is a major upslope that is dumping lots of snow. A couple of years ago one of these dumped 5ft at my house and 8ft at my buddies. This was the heavy wet kind 