0 in or towards the west: --
1 a wind that comes from the west --
2 toward or near the west: --
a westerly wind
Heavy westerlies have undermined these cliffs and large portions of rock have fallen to the sea bed, where waves have pounded them into weird shapes.
Major habitat types are identified: polar, temperate shelves and seas, temperate upwelling, tropical upwelling, tropical coral, pelagic (trades and westerlies), abyssal, and hadal (ocean trench).
The jet streams are a system of upper-air westerlies.
On occasion a strong cold front will develop in summer and bring the westerlies further north than their mean summer position.
In years when westerlies are strong, summers are cool, winters are mild and rain is frequent.
Winter rainfall is associated with large storms and fronts that the westerlies steer from west to east, that on occasion reach down into subtropical latitudes.
Talas maintained its large annulus with better poleward outflow enhanced by the strong mid latitude westerlies.
Within 24 hours, the circulation dissipated as the system continued eastward through the westerlies.
