northerly

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With northerly winds across the UK, the temperature has been around 4-7C below average this week.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Any northerly wind will drag in the - still - cold Arctic air which limits temperatures.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Mike Pratt, CEO of Northumberland Wildlife Trust, thinks England's most northerly county "must be up there with a good chance".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Behind it, the winds will turn northerly bringing a surge of cold air, with temperatures expected to fall below the seasonal average in many locations.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Klava Fomicheva and her navigator, Galya Dzhunkovskaya, both of them long since recovered after parachuting from their burning plane that summer, flew one of these cold and dark missions over northerly Riga.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein