Westerlies
Britishplural noun
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They’ll manifest their hometown love this spring during Westerlies Fest 2024, a weeklong educational outreach program culminating in shows across the city May 9-11.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Wind patterns known as the Westerlies sweep airborne things ranging from Beijing’s tailpipe soot and the charred chunks of Siberian forest fires swinging over the Arctic and into the United States.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course,” read the Foreign Ministry’s statement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
On this rendition of Russell’s “Eli,” the Westerlies smartly lean into the tune’s blend of harmonic splendor and hollering lament — and they’re mindful of the need for some textural play.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
It seems rather as though the great gales of the Westerlies must begin in these latitudes with such mild disturbances as we have just experienced.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
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