onshore breeze

Example Sentences

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North Sea coasts would be rather chilly with an onshore breeze, along with cloudy and misty conditions for some.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2024

And while the onshore breeze won’t bring obvious relief to Seattle, we would be looking at much higher temperatures were it not there, Michalski said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

The stiff onshore breeze cools the sunny day to a temperature somewhere between shorts-and-sweatshirt and jeans-and-T-shirt weather.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

Brodie works with big themes — individuation, mental illness, legacy, self-destruction and redemption — but her touch is lighter than an onshore breeze.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021

Then the set of the tide and the onshore breeze cause it to drag a little, and over it goes down into the abyss, and ashore he is bound to go.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta