westerlies

That's really not very likely, as it does turn -- make the big right turn, as all hurricanes do when they get up to what we call the westerlies, those west winds that come in that direction and push it away.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009 2009

But that pattern is being disrupted by 30,000 to 40,000-foot-high air flows on the U.S. mainland known as westerlies'' that form a jet stream and travel eastward toward the coast.

Warm-Water Temperatures Helping Push Irene North Mike Esterl 2011

March is also the month when the fierce winds, called westerlies, blow in off the Pacific Ocean.

SFGate: Top News Stories Katherine Grace Endicott 2010

Many settlers affirm that they feel the peculiar searching character of the dry cold "westerlies" more keenly than the more "honest" frost of the old country.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

There calms fell on us for a few days, but we drifted south in the right current, and in less than forty days had run into the "westerlies" and were bearing away for the Horn.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897

So that the following week saw us on the south side of the tropic of Capricorn, the south-east trade done, and the dirty weather and variable squalls, which nearly always precede the "westerlies," making our lives a burden to us.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

Here the fresh westerlies forsook us and we bobbed and blobbed about in doldrummy weather for many days.

Chapter 19 2010

Here the fresh westerlies forsook us and we bobbed and blobbed about in doldrummy weather for many days.

Chapter 19 2010

We continued to run to the north-east before the fresh westerlies, but our quest for warmer weather seemed vain.

Chapter 19 2010

We continued to run to the north-east before the fresh westerlies, but our quest for warmer weather seemed vain.

Chapter 19 2010