"southerly direction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe any motion or path heading in a southward direction. For example: "The bird flew in a southerly direction before settling in its home nest."
Set off in a southerly direction, downhill.
Their bullets went in a mostly southerly direction.
For that reason, all consumer dishes in America point in a southerly direction.
Mr. Goldner said that in a standard residential application, solar panels -- known as photovoltaic panels -- are typically installed on a roof facing in a southerly direction.
5 Head along the top of Compton Down in a southerly direction keeping the fence on your left at all times.
"Let's say they associate the smell of pine with wind coming from the north, so they move in a southerly direction," Dr. Bateson said.
Cage tests at dusk in the local geomagnetic field revealed species-specific differences: red-eyed vireo, Vireo olivaceus, and northern waterthrush, Seiurus noveboracensis, selected seasonally appropriate southerly directions whereas indigo bunting, Passerina cyanea, and grey catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, oriented towards the sunset direction.
To the east it leads to the small town of Selbyville, Delaware, and to the west it veers in a southerly direction--right across to the Maryland border.
Wind damage was greatest in areas where winds blew from southerly directions off of mountains.
These rising air currents diverge in the upper troposphere and move away from the equator at high altitude in both northerly and southerly directions.
Paleocurrent indicators derived from borehole image logs indicate common southerly directed sediment dispersal in S2 and S3 and increasingly complex with westerly directions in S4 and S5.
