Signal processing methods and systems for beam forming with wind buffeting protection

A method and apparatus are provided for generating a directional output signal from sound received by at least two microphones arranged as microphone array. The method includes transforming the sound received by each of said microphones and represented by analog-to-digital converted time-domain signals provided by each of said microphones into corresponding complex-valued frequency-domain microphone signals each having a frequency component value for each of a plurality of frequency components, calculating, for each of the plurality of frequency components, real-valued Wind Reduction Factors as minima of the reciprocal and non-reciprocal frequency components of a plurality of real-valued Deviation Spectra if said minimum is below a preselected deviation threshold and set to one if said minimum is above or equal to said deviation threshold, and for each of the plurality of frequency components, forming a frequency-domain wind-reduced output signal.