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Examples
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There is a strong south-easterly wind, which is making matters worse.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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There is a strong south-easterly wind, which is making matters worse.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Aside from those two days, though, the second half of the month was chillier, with south-easterly winds setting in between 15 and 21 February.
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"The sheen is located about 120 kilometers offshore and continues to move in a south-easterly direction away from the Brazilian coast," the company added.
Chevron Cementing Oil Well Near Leak Off Brazil Isabel Ordonez 2011
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In intricate black-and-white the map revealed Britain's south-easterly corner as a mesh of bridleways, brooks and field boundaries.
Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review Ian Thomson 2010
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Tomorrow evening in Lappeenranta, a small town in a south-easterly corner of Finland, Caster Semenya will make her return to competition after an enforced absence of 11 months.
Caster Semenya returns to track in Finland to end enforced limbo 2010
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Outlined against the clouds was a formation of giffs going in a south-easterly direction.
Cattle Town 2010
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After putting ample brakes on the sledge-runners, we started off downhill in a south-easterly direction.
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To the east a prominent ridge appeared, and with the glass it could be seen to extend inland in a south-easterly direction.
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The light Antarctic summer night ran its course, while the gusts of wind tugged and tore at the thin sides of our tent; no snowfall accompanied the south-easterly wind, but the loose snow of the surface was whirled up into a drift that stood like an impenetrable wall round the tent.
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