Westerlies

Here the fresh westerlies forsook us and we bobbed and blobbed about in doldrummy weather for many days.

We continued to run to the north-east before the fresh westerlies, but our quest for warmer weather seemed vain.

The Gulf Stream and the prevailing westerlies later gave English vessels the advantage on the return voyage.

On the polar margins of the trade-wind zone lie the sub-tropical belts, of alternating trades and westerlies.

Towards the poles there is no obvious limit to the temperate zones, for the prevailing westerlies extend beyond the polar circles.