prevailing wind

Scientific  

/ prĭ-vā′lĭng /

1. A wind that blows predominantly from a single general direction. The trade winds of the tropics, which blow from the east throughout the year, are prevailing winds.

2. See illustration at wind

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Example Sentences

This variation is also due to the wind direction, with rain being blown in by a prevailing wind coming off the North Sea, dragging in extra moisture which has enhanced both the rain and cloud.

From BBC

Areas exposed to those prevailing winds have had the wettest weather.

From BBC

It blew topsy-turvy in an eastward direction, borne by fate and the prevailing winds toward the wide, unforgiving sea.

From Literature

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"If you're out here and there is a south-westerly wind - which is the prevailing wind in this area - we get the smell," she said.

From BBC