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- noun Plural form of
easterly .
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Examples
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A soft breeze punctuated recent chill easterlies – March many weathers indeed!
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Chill easterlies have established a stronger hold than expected along the entire North Sea coast and as far as the Pennines, Birmingham, Oxford and Hampshire.
More snow forecast before cold snap gives way to high winds 2012
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Our house was a short drive from the water back then and when the summer south easterlies freshened in front of a storm we were able to smell the brine and fish in the tropical air of the lower Rio Grande Valley.
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Following final disintegration of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet approximately 10,000 to 9,000 years BP, cool easterlies were replaced by predominantly westerly flows western Russia and Siberia [50].
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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Wednesday was also hot, with strong easterlies in the morning that frustrated Katie's attempts to go rowing.
Journal for 30 December 2000 Alex Allan 2009
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In North America, there are two main jet streams: the polar jet stream, which occurs between the westerlies and the polar easterlies, and the subtropical jet stream, which occurs between the trade winds and the westerlies.
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This typically occurs in conjunction with a westward extension of the equatorial cold tongue and too-strong easterlies that extend into the western Pacific.
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David, the stronger the easterlies the lower the TC count and ACE.
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Results in easterlies in excess of normal velocity over Sahel and southern Sahara.
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I evoke those smells again with awesome clarity – gasworks was the usual claim, but easterlies mixed easily with offal from the freezing works and sewage stench that leaked from outfalls at the northern beach.
More In Every Sense (than just a town) Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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