westerly

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A deepening area of low pressure between Scotland and Iceland on Wednesday is bringing strong westerly winds, gales and even touching severe gales.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Most meteorologists cite weakening westerly disturbances – low-pressure systems from the Mediterranean carrying cold air – as a key reason for reduced rainfall and occasional snow during winter in northern India, Pakistan, and Nepal.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

During strong westerly winds, especially in years with a wet spring and hot, dry fall, swarms of thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—roll freely over the prairie landscape, halting only where housing developments stand in their way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Strengthening westerly winds are already pushing the deep water closer to the surface.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

Hawk Mountain is a picturesque mountaintop in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the easternmost ridges of the Appalachians form a last barrier to the westerly winds before dropping away toward the coastal plain.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson