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The westerlies, anti-trades, [2] or prevailing westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. They originate from the high-pressure areas in the horse latitudes (about 30 degrees) and trend towards the poles and steer extratropical cyclones in this general manner. [ 3 ]
The westerlies (blue arrows) and trade winds (yellow and brown arrows) The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. The trade winds blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere , strengthening during the winter ...
A western disturbance is an extratropical storm originating in the Mediterranean region that brings sudden winter rain to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, [1] [2] which extends as east as up to northern parts of Bangladesh and South eastern Nepal. [3] It is a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by the westerlies.
The westerlies play an important role in carrying the warm, equatorial waters and winds to the western coasts of continents, [13] [14] especially in the southern hemisphere because of its vast oceanic expanse. The westerlies explain why coastal Western North America tends to be wet, especially from Northern Washington to Alaska, during the winter.
Alberta Clipper (fast-moving, frigid winter wind out of the central Canadian plains that swoops down across the U.S. Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes) Brookings Effect (off-shore wind on the southwestern Oregon coast, United States; also known as the Chetco Effect) Chinook (warm dry westerly off the Rocky Mountains)
The European Monsoon (more commonly known as the return of the westerlies) is the result of a resurgence of westerly winds from the Atlantic, where they become loaded with wind and rain. [60] These westerly winds are a common phenomenon during the European winter, but they ease as spring approaches in late March and through April and May.
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At the end of the introduction, it states that "[Westerlies] are strongest in the winter and when the pressure is lower over the poles, and weakest during the summer and when pressures are higher over the poles."