prevailing wind

Example Sentences

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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

The prevailing wind direction is a south-westerly so nature and infrastructure is built with this in mind.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

The biggest change to Royal Liverpool is the new 17th hole — a par 3 of just 136 yards that can be a menace with the prevailing wind coming off the Dee Estuary.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 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