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Westerlies
/ ˈwɛstəlɪz /
plural noun
- meteorol the prevailing winds blowing from the west on the poleward sides of the horse latitudes, often bringing depressions and anticyclones
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Here the fresh westerlies forsook us and we bobbed and blobbed about in doldrummy weather for many days.
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We continued to run to the north-east before the fresh westerlies, but our quest for warmer weather seemed vain.
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The Gulf Stream and the prevailing westerlies later gave English vessels the advantage on the return voyage.
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On the polar margins of the trade-wind zone lie the sub-tropical belts, of alternating trades and westerlies.
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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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