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Finally, he drew up in the lee of a large berg and shouted to Worsley to go back and help the other boat.

Plug settled himself in the lee of the house, out of the wind.

“No. A storm drove me on a lee shore, and I lost my anchor to windward.”

Winds also lift over and through crenulated ridgelines and careen downhill, accelerating with gravity on the lee sides of mountains, which is the side facing the ocean and densely populated coastal Southern California.

The winds developed as a strong low pressure zone intensified in the lee of Rocky Mountains.