Sentence examples for northwesterly from inspiring English sources
"northwesterly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word to describe the direction of movement or a location. For example, "The wind blew from a northwesterly direction."
adjective
Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest
The plunging temperatures saw Christmas Day night become the coldest night of the year so far, with minus 8.5C recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.In the days to come a brisk northwesterly wind could make it feel more like -11C to -14C across the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia, the Met Office said.
Northwesterly winds prevail in autumn and winter, and westerly and southwesterly winds are common in spring and summer.
A belt of hardwoods extended from southeastern Minnesota northwesterly to the Canadian border, passing through the Twin Cities and lying immediately to the south and west of the coniferous forest.
From the fortress that protected the settlement, a track led south past these lands to False Bay on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula and on beyond Muizenberg and Kalk Bay to Simon's Bay, where the East Indiaman trade ships could find shelter from northwesterly winter gales.
It continues in a northwesterly direction to meet the Des Plaines River and to form the Illinois River.
In the same area, tropical soils and ridge-top lateritic deposits of Georgia and Alabama reflect weathering conditions established 150 million years ago when southeastern North America was still in the tropics before recent northwesterly continental drift.
The Columbia Mountains parallel the Canadian Rockies, of which they are sometimes considered a western extension, for about 370 miles (600 km) in a northwesterly-southeasterly direction.
Paranapanema River, Portuguese Rio Paranapanema, river, rising south of São Paulo in the Serra do Paranapiacaba, southeastern Brazil, and flowing in a west-northwesterly direction for 560 mi (900 km) before entering the Paraná River at Pôrto São José.
As a result of those factors, northerlies and northwesterlies (nearly one-third of occurrences) and southeasterlies (more than one-third) dominate circulation patterns.
Conversely, northwesterlies are more common on the north coast and in the Bismarck Archipelago, but they affect Port Moresby for only three to four months of the year (the rainy season, December through March).
With the northwesterlies, rain is frequently from heated saturated air that loses its moisture as it cools and rises (convectional storms), and rain shadow effects are reduced.
