The cliffs are subject to very strong prevailing westerly winds and the scrubby vegetation that grows there is low and stunted by the harsh environmental conditions.
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The VOC required ships to utilise the Brouwer Route to cross from the Cape to Batavia, enjoying the prevailing westerlies by travelling eastwards until turning north.
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However, the high escarpments forming the western wall of the South Warner Valley tend to protect the southern part of the valley from the prevailing westerly winds.
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The Chukchi Sea is microtidal < 50 cm, and the prevailing westerly currents maintain a series of widely spaced offshore bars that typically damp onshore wave energy.
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The exposed lake bottom sediments were blown by the prevailing westerly winds to form the sand dunes that still lie on the east side of Summer Lake.
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The best known and most documented eruption of Mount Meager is a Prevailing westerly winds carried volcanic ash from this explosion eastwards to as far as Alberta.
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The trick was to round them in a small sailing ship and enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca, despite the frequent rip tides and the prevailing westerlies.
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The Gulf Stream not only carries warm water to Europe's coast but also warms up the prevailing westerly winds that blow across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean.
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The prevailing westerly winds in the summer can blow at 20 to 40 mph through this narrow gap toward the desert, whipping hair into eyes and keeping flags aflutter.
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Given the right weather conditions, New York can be downwind of a large stretch of solar heating, since it is firmly within the band of mid-latitude prevailing westerly winds.
