Definition of "westerlies" []

• Plural form of westerly. (noun)

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• "That's really not very likely, as it does turn -- make the big right turn, as all hurricanes do when they get up to what we call the westerlies, those west winds that come in that direction and push it away."
• "But that pattern is being disrupted by 30,000 to 40,000-foot-high air flows on the U.S. mainland known as westerlies'' that form a jet stream and travel eastward toward the coast."
• "March is also the month when the fierce winds, called westerlies, blow in off the Pacific Ocean."