Sentence examples for windward from inspiring English sources

With below average sea temperatures over the North Atlantic, it was not surprisingly a chilly month in northern and western parts of the British Isles, especially around windward coasts.

Even on the bleaker windward slope, grasses and sedges are dotted with Bermuda cedar and guava bushes.

He explains that, for safety, icebergs should be passed on the windward side, as downwind of them will be dangerous, fast-moving pieces of ice "like floating rocks".

She won two Fastnets and was still in the British Admiral's Cup team as late as 1961.As one who had fun sailing both of these extraordinary yachts, I would think that, given the most likely extreme conditions of danger for family cruising (clawing to windward off a lee-shore in high wind and sea, without engine), Myth would have been my choice.

Rainfall measured by the Met Office has not increased over 30 years; but its rain gauge, at the southern tip of the island, is in one of the drier spots.If there is more moisture in the air condensing as dew, you might expect to see the effects high up and to windward, on somewhere like Mountain Red Hill.

More productive cloud making at the peak might well mean more rain over this central strip; and since warmer oceans mean moister air rising up on the mountain's windward side, climate change might be expected to thicken at some point, even if it hasn't hit yet.It's also possible that Hooker's experiment is bearing fruit.

The scoria cones that dominate the landscape in the west of the island – huge symmetrical piles of red grit such as Cross Hill, which towers almost 300 metres over Georgetown, or Command Hill, which overlooks the airbase - are steep on the windward side, less so on the lee.

On most of the larger islands, elevations are great enough to generate precipitation on the windward slopes; grasses and some pine plantations are found in these relatively moist locations.

From mid-California north, the windward sides of mountains along the Pacific coast are bathed with rain- or snow-laden westerlies, giving from 40 to 200 inches (1,000 to 5,000 mm) of precipitation per year.

We found the charming Windward Islands Cruising company in London, fully described our concerns about our inexperience and let them get on with it.

The assailant is a black man thought to be in his late 30s, and groundbreaking forensic tests have pinpointed his ancestral DNA to the Windward Islands.