westerly

Adjective modifier

• south: The most south westerly of First Class grounds, dominated at one end by Church Towers & at the other by the Quantock Hills.
• strong: A strong westerly will make 11 to 14 difficult with left to right wind.
• large: Large westerly facing garden with bbq to take best advantage of those long summer evenings.

Modifies a noun

• gale: May 8th: A severe westerly gale meant that most things were lying low for the majority of the day.
• airflow: The sunshine and showers continue, in a broadly westerly airflow.
• breeze: The first race was held at the more exposed end of the pond in a fresh westerly breeze.
• wind: The high westerly winds gave rise to a choppy sea.
• direction: Walk across the stream in a westerly direction for some distance, toward the point.
• swell: The surf is looking promising with the current westerly swell being replaced by another over the weekend.

Modifying Another Word

• south: They also bring most of the rainfall on westerly / south westerly winds.
• north: Sunny periods during day, with light west, north westerly winds.

Noun used with modifier

• north: The was a good north westerly which held up for the duration of the race.

Preposition: of

• island: The area he was to survey was Prince Charles Foreland - the most westerly of the islands of Spitsbergen ( today called Svalbard ).