Sentences with word «northwesterly»

For windsurfers, the prevailing northwesterly winds blow best in the afternoon.

Prevailing northwesterly winds are almost constant blowing sand quite readily.

Any drying will be aided by very strong northwesterly winds.

Although both waves are quite fickle, they have their share of epic days with a strong Northwesterly swell or pumping Southwest swell.

During these months, upper - level northwesterly flow along the California coast is directed onshore by the Channel Islands.

This westernmost Channel Island receives northwesterly winds and severe weather from the open ocean.

The West Coast is by far the best destination as it picks up the predominant northwesterly swells.

The shape and location of the Rockies help to cause a persistent wave in the Jet Stream, with a trough in over eastern North America which brings cold continental air, via northwesterly winds, to northeastern North America, and a crest over the eastern north Atlantic and western Europe which brings warm maritime air, via southwesterly winds, to northern Europe.

During the warm season, the Ridge has helped to shut down the typical northwesterly prevailing winds along the coast (and thus the upwelling) that are responsible for northern and central California's legendarily cold ocean surface temperatures.

The image showed that northwesterly vertical wind shear was pushing the storms southeast of the center.

The wind often increases in the afternoon, and the prevailing northwesterlies can make paddling back to Water Canyon difficult.

Typically, classic nor'easter s that strike southern New England as well as the Mid-Atlantic do so when the confluence zone, or area of strong west - to - northwesterly winds well north of the storm system, is located further to the north and west, across Quebec, compared to this setup.

PMD believes that climate change is to blame for this northwesterly migration of the monsoons.

Like a volcanic assembly line, each Hawaiian island was forged from magma welling up from a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, then inched, with the Pacific plate, in a northwesterly direction toward Japan.

«I was sitting in the upper deck of Camden Yards Baseball Stadium and noticed a monarch fly in a northwesterly direction at about our eye level (approximately 80 feet from the ground),» Koontz wrote in one «Field Data Reports Record.»

The river cuts in a northwesterly direction across Humboldt County, past a number of small mountain communities including Fort Seward.

San Miguel is the westernmost island, and as a result receives the brunt of the northwesterly winds, fog, and severe weather from the open ocean.

Inspired by the northwesterly vista of Cascade Mountain, through the windows that bank the exhibition space, Calgary ‐ based artist Tyler Los ‐ Jones» ongoing body of work uncannily reflects the mountains onto themselves.

Poleward of the subtropical ridges, winds in the lower troposphere tend to be southwesterly in the Northern Hemisphere and northwesterly in the Southern Hemisphere, again owing to the Coriolis effect.

The cool, dry westerly and northwesterly winds — driven by the East Asian winter monsoon (pdf) circulation — typically blow pollutants away from the city.