northerly

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If Brora Rangers win the play-off, they would become the most northerly team in UK professional football.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

And it was the site of the UK's most northerly deep coal mine, before the last shafts closed in the 1970s.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Any northerly wind will drag in the - still - cold Arctic air which limits temperatures.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Winds from a general northerly tap into air that is still fairly cold in and around the Arctic.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The general synopsis at eighteen hundred issued by the Met Office: Fitzroy, mainly northerly, four or five, becoming variable, thundery showers ...

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd