prevailing westerlies
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This strengthens the prevailing westerlies and drags them poleward.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2023
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
Weather Bureau's Jerome Namias, the "prevailing westerlies" failed; cold east winds from Russia invaded western Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
So far, the smoke clouds are hugging the ground, drifting in the prevailing westerlies only as far as Pakistan.
From Time Magazine Archive
IT, or rather she, didn’t go back over the Pacific, perhaps because of the prevailing westerlies.
From The Good Neighbors by Pangborn, Edgar
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