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Barra Golf Club, the most westerly course in Scotland, is best played in hiking boots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Strong westerly winds are expected to become widespread on Saturday evening, with very windy conditions continuing overnight and through much of Sunday.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Strengthening westerly winds will help to finally clear the higher humidity that has made recent days and nights uncomfortable at times.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The fire in France's southwest Gironde region started with northerly winds, then westerly, then southerly, then easterly, then back again to the south, then the west...

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

They kept on thinking they saw things, and there was one time: when Polly was perfectly certain she had seen a tail, dark figure gliding quickly away in a westerly direction.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Current UK forecasts are showing that winds will start to switch to less hot westerlies from Saturday onwards.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025

Other research has suggested that these westerlies will strengthen over the next century due to climate change.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

“As we had made it clear before, the airship, used for meteorological research, unintentionally drifted into U.S. because of the westerlies and its limited self-steering capability,” Mr. Liu said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 30, 2023

“The long-range models are forecasting a strong negative NAO, which usually helps push the westerlies and storm tracks along the East Coast farther south than normal,” said Wes Junker, Capital Weather Gang’s winter weather expert.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

This would not only enable the westerlies, which are really southwesterlies, to carry more heat than now to high latitudes, but would still further strengthen the ocean currents.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington