prevailing westerlies
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This strengthens the prevailing westerlies and drags them poleward.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2023
The clouds indicated that Mars, like the earth, has "prevailing westerlies" as well as winds circulating around areas of high or low pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies �one lone man to a boat.
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
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.
From Reading the Weather by Longstreth, Thomas Morris
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