Westerlies

British  

/ ˈwɛstəlɪz /

plural noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

“I don’t think I’d be playing music still were it not for the incredible opportunity given to me in Seattle,” says Westerlies trombonist Andy Clausen, speaking via phone from a touring stop near Milwaukee.

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

Another interesting realization from the Coriolis Effect and the Zone of Westerlies is that weather systems tend to move from west to east across both North America and the southern part of South America.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

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 Scott, Robert Falcon