Which wind direction is your least favourite?

Whichever one occurs when it’s under 45 f without cool 50+ mph gusts. That kind of wind is shitty and annoying and not fast enough to be interesting.

My favorite are the downsloping chinooks from the West.

South and southwest as those are the most common during winter thaws here. SE, E and NE winds typically have snow. N and NW bring in arctic, dry air so I like them, W winds are usually signifying a change in air mass from mild to cold, so I like those too. 

This is for winter though. Ask me in summer, and my answers are likely different.

Back home in South FL, any wind from an easterly direction sucked ass. They fucked up cold snaps and pushed summer thunderstorms to the west coast of FL, guaranteed boring weather with easterlies there. S/SW were good during summer, those would bring good storms typically, SW winds were typical just ahead of a cold front during winter.

Southwesterlies are that cancerous that they appear twice in the poll. I have a blistering hatred for southerlies, westerlies, and SW'lies. These winds come straight off the world's coldest ocean and bring cold, stratocrapulus, boring ass dry shit, and murder heat and storms.

When the weather report mentions the worst phrase in the English language, "A cool change", that means that heat and storms will be replaced by southwesterlies with their associated cold maritime air coming right off the world's coldest ocean. 

To expand on my answer: NE'ly winds are the worst, followed by northerly then north-westerlies.

NE'ly could be quite shallow, and therefore not as cold, or could be a train of cold air from Siberia depending on the pressure pattern. The latter is much rarer and called things like a "beast from the east" with bitter temperatures and often lots of snow from the North Sea. NE'ly winds like that tend to be quite strong with serious wind chill. NE'ly winds are statistically most likely in the spring (sadly) when there are more blocked pressure patterns. Examples of unusually persistent NE winds include the disaster that was March 2013 (5 degrees Celsius below average with regular snow) and smaller examples were the "beast from the east" in 2018 with March's lowest maximum temperature on record. Those were deep, strong examples. Most NE'ly winds are much shallower and weaker than that, and one of the most common problems in higher pressure set-ups in particular is north sea low cloud often referred to as "haar", or "clag", "fret" among other things. This is a thin layer of stratus clouds off the sea that subdues the temperature massively where it lies, usually around the NE coast. However, it isn't always confined to the coast and can linger inland even when it has broken up coastally. This cloud is common with light NE'ly and E'ly winds in spring anticyclonic situations.

The main reason I dislike NE'lies is the cold winds. The same can be said for northerlies as well. NW'lies are often more cyclonic in winter with showers and crisp skies in between. In summer, though, NW'lies are often associated with anticyclones situated west of the UK, and are responsible for the most boring weather known to man - overcast and drizzle, with subdued daytime maximum temperatures. NW'ly in summer results in cloudy, stratocumulus infested days, with the cloud then clearing at sunset to produce a cool, clear night. Then the cloud spreads across the sky once again in the late morning the next day. NW'ly in summer = clear cool nights and cold, overcast days often with drizzle. Probably the worst type of weather in the UK summers apart from total washouts. Certainly the most tedious. Last August of 2021 was notably NW'ly with record amounts of cloud but because of higher than average pressure it was drier than average. Note its very subdued avg. max temperature.

I voted Northeast. NE or E means wind off Lake Michigan, which kills any chance of extreme temperatures.

North westerlies, northerlies, north easterlies, easterlies (in winter).

The first two at least bring brighter weather but usually cool. Southerlies, south easterlies are the best for warmer weather. South westerlies are OK

I have a love/hate relationship with easterlies.

Often delivers North Sea low cloud/fog that’s stubborn to clear, especially between March and June. Even in winter it’s often just a dreary overcast affair with little variation in temperature - 3C highs, 1C lows. But sometimes we’ll get a good cold easterly with sea-effect snow, like March 2018. Easterlies can be hot in the summer too, and I prefer easterlies from July-Sep when there’s less difference between air and sea temperature (so less chance of stratocrapulus).

Also hate northerlies in summer - they usually deliver 15-17C highs in July, and sometimes temperatures as low as 3C in early June/late August. They’re absolutely vile.