prevailing wind
Example Sentences
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"If you're out here and there is a south-westerly wind - which is the prevailing wind in this area - we get the smell," she said.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025
Yana Valachovic, a fire scientist at the University of California, said some of the spared houses were tucked away from prevailing wind currents so that embers didn’t hit them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Agguttinni means "where the prevailing wind occurs" in the Inuktitut local dialect.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024
Do you have a prevailing wind direction in your yard?
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023
She rode the prevailing wind over the familiar mountains and rivers and beyond the Catskills into unknown territory.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
