Sentence examples for northeasterly from inspiring English sources
adjective
Situated in, or pointing towards the northeast
The average January temperature is 21 °F (−6 °C), and winter days with temperatures above freezing are not uncommon; in cold spells with a northerly or northeasterly airstream, temperatures may drop sharply, and an absolute minimum of −27 °F (−33 °C) has been recorded.
The London Basin is a wedge-shaped declivity bounded to the south by the chalk of North Downs, running north to south, and to the north by the chalk outcrop of the Chiltern Hills, running up in a northeasterly direction from the Goring Gap.
Aravalli Range, also spelled Aravali Range, hill system of northern India, running northeasterly for 350 miles (560 km) through Rajasthan state.
A dry season alternates with a wet season, with the eastern sides of the islands receiving more rainfall because of the prevailing northeasterly trade winds.
It rises in the Troodos range and flows in a northeasterly direction toward Nicosia, where it takes an easterly turn through the part of the central lowlands called the Mesaoria Plain toward Famagusta Bay.
The northeasterly monsoon wind, beginning ordinarily in November in the southern areas, brings dry weather until May.
The clockwise circulation and current patterns that characterize the Atlantic were used to full advantage by seafarers, who would cross westward on steady prevailing northeasterly trades and use the Gulf Stream and westerly breezes of the North Atlantic for their return trips.
The river continues as the Save, following an east-northeasterly course to its mouth near Mambone on the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean.
It extends in a west-northeasterly arc between Al-Jifārah Al-Jifārahlain and Al-Ḥamrāʾ Plateau.
Winds are strongest everywhere in the winter, with the bitter northeasterlies reaching hurricane force in the Russian coastal region of Novorossiysk (Novorossiyskaya), just to the east of the Kerch Strait, and gale force on the sea itself.
The trades were said to be northeasterlies, which in theory was not a bad direction, for a south-facing coast, but somehow they were always sideshore at Cliffs, and strong enough to ruin most spots from that angle.
