northwesterly in English

adjective

['nɔrðwestə(r)lɪ /'nɔːð-]

moving or facing northwestward; situated in the northwest; coming from the northwest

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1. The shamal, a northwesterly wind common during June and July, causes dramatic sandstorms.

2. However, northwesterly wind shear began to adversely affect Walaka, causing it to weaken before crossing the archipelago.

3. Additionally, extensive upwelling of colder sub-surface waters occurs, caused by the prevailing northwesterly winds acting through the Ekman Effect.

4. 24 They rode almost due north, making for Birdsall Brow and facing into a gusty northwesterly breeze.

5. Thence following Tigbi Creek upstream in a general northwesterly direction about 60 meters to corner 48, Bitanhol tree 30 cms

6. In 1956, the airfield received a new 2,465 metre-long concrete runway, which is oriented in a northwesterly direction and allows the operation of modern military jet planes.

7. The Kishon winds its way in a northwesterly direction from the hills near Taanach through the Plain of Jezreel, or Esdraelon (ʽEmeq Yizreʽel), and, after flowing through a narrow gorge between Mount Carmel and a spur of the Galilean hills, enters the Plain of Acco (Acre) before finally emptying into the Mediterranean.