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northerly

[nawr-ther-lee] / ˈnɔr ðər li /
ADJECTIVE
boreal
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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

And it was the site of the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, before the last shafts closed in the 1970s.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Winds from a general northerly tap into air that is still fairly cold in and around the Arctic.

From BBC • May 9, 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

The whole statue had acquired around its northerly surfaces a bluish-green patina, so that from certain approaches, and in low light, the muscle-bound Triton really seemed a hundred leagues under the sea.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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