More generally these winds are classified as northerly or southerly. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
Thus, a wind from the north blowing toward the south is called a northerly wind. From Wordnik.com. [Wind] Reference
Again a site on the shores of James Bay seems like a very odd inclusion as a South site, if it is, as its climate would be far more "northerly" than Gotland or Jaemtland. From Wordnik.com. [Cook et al[2004]: More Cargo Cult? « Climate Audit] Reference
Pierrefeu takes a northerly direction up the valley of the. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
(It's one of the most northerly universities in the world.). From Wordnik.com. [Norway's Glaciers Become a Hot Spot] Reference
At the northerly angle was the junction of the Conemaugh and. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The Townships are numbered in regular order northerly from the. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
Anguilla the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The Hotel Arctic is the most northerly 4-star hotel in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Most Remote Hotels] Reference
Straits; and northerly winds are prevalent on the eastern coast of. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
But more northerly jet streams are also a sign of a greenhouse world. From Wordnik.com. [Where's Winter?] Reference
He was chasing Lee in a northerly direction, -- towards Philadelphia or New. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Krasnik and drove the Russians back with heavy losses in a northerly direction. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
We are encamped on the banks of Crow creek, three miles northerly from Stevenson. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Geography - note: the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The northerly winds in winter, however, are bleak and cold, like easterly winds in England. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
So it was with a considerable degree of resignation that he saw the wind continue northerly. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Drennans took the Carson Route, the Maxwell train proceeding by the more northerly, Truckee, trail. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Here are the Straits of Juan de Fuca; and here Admiral Fonte penetrated up the more northerly inlets. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Thence he travelled in a northerly direction, probably parallel to the coast at some distance from it. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
He had crossed the Arctic Circle and reached the most northerly point ever yet reached by an explorer. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The necessary supplies for the journey were carried to Cape Columbia, the northerly point of Grant Land. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Meeting, with but little opposition, Merritt drove this cavalry force in a northerly direction toward Scott's. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Branch to branch, branch to trunk and trunk-to-trunk fusions are common in many of the ancient northerly trees. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests] Reference
Butternuts are naturally a more northerly species than black walnuts but have not been so widely planted in North Dakota. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930] Reference
The monsoons on the northerly shores of Borneo are found to correspond with those prevalent in the China seas, viz. from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The Mandinga is spoken from the banks of the Senegal, where that river takes a northerly course from the Jibel Kuthera to the. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
Missionary Ridge in strong force, but that part of his line which extended across the intervening valley to the northerly point of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Constable J. Brockie left Herschell Island and established the most northerly outpost of the Force 65 miles east of the mouth of the. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
A hot wind is always a northerly wind, and the highest temperature generally occurs a little before the win changes to west or south-west. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Five minutes later the brigade-major let us know that the Corps on our left had cleared a vastly important ridge, but their most northerly. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Then the Emden took a northerly course, likewise the enemy, and I had to stand there helpless gritting my teeth and thinking: 'Damn it; the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Another large camp is reported in the hills which lie off the Tugela in a northerly direction from Hlangwane Hill, a rough scrub-covered kopje. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
The route followed was a somewhat northerly one, the north coast of Ireland being skirted and a more or less direct course was kept to Newfoundland. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
The mackerel, too, is to be met with annually, generally about midwinter, in immense shoals, passing near the coast upwards in a northerly direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Various commandoes were now seen advancing towards the railway bridge, which is half a mile north-west of Estcourt, and also from a northerly direction. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
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