prevailing westerlies
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This strengthens the prevailing westerlies and drags them poleward.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2023
South of the boundary, the "prevailing westerlies" blow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weather Bureau's Jerome Namias, the "prevailing westerlies" failed; cold east winds from Russia invaded western Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now suppose that cyclonic storms should be greatly reduced in number so that in the zone of prevailing westerlies they were scarcely more numerous than tropical hurricanes now are in the trade-wind belt.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth
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