prevailing westerlies
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At those dizzy heights the prevailing westerlies are in full force, blowing from eighty to two hundred miles an hour night after night and day after day.
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This interferes with the stable planetary winds, such as the trades of low latitudes and the prevailing westerlies of higher latitudes.
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Towards the poles there is no obvious limit to the temperate zones, for the prevailing westerlies extend beyond the polar circles.
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IT, or rather she, didn’t go back over the Pacific, perhaps because of the prevailing westerlies.
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Captain Davis had visited the island in the 'Nimrod', and was acquainted with the three anchorages, which are all on the east side and sheltered from the prevailing westerlies.
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