windward side in a sentence
Examples
- Winter weather typically brings more storms and wetter weather, especially to the windward sides of the island, and slightly cooler temperatures.
- Also, because it is on the windward side of the mountains, it is often cloudy, having 203 cloudy days per year.
- Thus, the foehn wind at a certain altitude is warmer than the corresponding altitude on the windward side of the mountain range.
- The sand cay is located to the lee of their reef flat, whereas the shingle cay is located on the windward side.
- Why did government tanks punch numerous small holes into the windward side of the compound and large holes into the leeward side?
- From June through September, the south-west monsoon brings in heavy rains as Keezhuvaipur lies on the windward side of the Western Ghats.
- In musical terms, if the leeward side is something akin to a Jimmy Buffett song, the windward side is like a Wagner aria.
- On the windward side of a ridge, the base erodes faster than the top, producing a shape like an anvil tip pointing upwind.
- The pluviometric maximums are registered on the windward side at an average altitude of between, almost exclusively in the La Orotava mountain range.
- It was followed by third and fourth-placed yachts overall, Swedish Match and Innovation Kvaerner who also chose the windward side of the start line.