northwest wind
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- noun
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viento noroeste
- Lows will be in the 20s and 30s with west or northwest winds at 10 to 20 mph.
Examples
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Windy, with a northwest wind between 23 and 26 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph.
Blog text (25) -
From late August to early October, flocks of fat curlews, stimulated by cold northwest winds, swirled over the barren grounds and headed out to sea over eastern Canada.
Academic text (1992) -
The northwest wind blew sharper, stinging with sand.
Fiction book (1993) -
We stood in the open, and the only sound in the vast quiet was the northwest wind's snarl and skirl.
Fiction book (1993) -
These storms usually give rise to southwest and northwest winds gusting to 30 knots that are accompanied by heavy rain.
Academic text (2005) -
Still getting northwest winds at 52 gusting to 64 mph at a platform 65 miles south of New Iberia.
Blog text (1) -
Northwest winds are expected to increase gradually to 20-30 mph with gusts of 40 to 50 mph.
Blog text (21) -
Culver has ventured farther out than usual in the late afternoon calm that follows an October day of northwest wind and small-craft warnings.
Fiction book (2000) -
The northwest wind brought a chill to the evening, making everyone reach for their jackets.
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Sailors welcomed the northwest wind, which helped them navigate quickly across the ocean.
Synonyms
A wind that blows from the northwest
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a wind blowing from the northwest' is directly and compositionally derived from 'northwest' (a compass direction) + 'wind' (air movement). This is a straightforward descriptive noun phrase following common compounding patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Northwest wind comes from the simple image of a wind blowing from the northwest; sailors and farmers learned that winds from that direction often brought cold or stormy weather, so the phrase means 'a wind blowing from the northwest'.