How to Use southwesterly in a Sentence

southwesterly

adverb or adjective
  • The wind will be light in the morning and then southwesterly in the afternoon at around 5 mph.
    — courant.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Raised by her aunt, Suzume now lives in Kyushu, the most southwesterly of Japan’s main islands.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Later in the week, a low-pressure system should stall to our north, and winds will shift to southwesterly, bringing in hotter temps.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • With weak southwesterly flow aloft, thunderstorm cells will move slowly toward the northeast.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
  • Light southwesterly winds could also help keep temperatures steady or rising a degree or two.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Clouds will break up during the afternoon, with winds turning more southwesterly as a spring-like dry line or the frontal boundary of a dry air mass moves over the area.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Winds will turn southwesterly overnight, bringing milder air Wednesday through Friday.
    — Gary Lessor, courant.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • That’s thanks to southwesterly breezes fairly noticeable much of the day, perhaps gusting to around 20 mph.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Highs spin clockwise, ushering in southwesterly flow on their departing side.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Overnight lows Monday into Tuesday will be much milder in the mid to upper 50s with a southwesterly breeze.
    — Steven Sosna, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • However, strong southwesterly vertical wind shear and dry air have caused the low-level center of the storm to become less organized.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Even outside of thunderstorms, southwesterly winds could gust near 30 mph as the cold front setting off these storms and downpours approaches.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Southerly and southwesterly winds are also tapping hot and humid air from the South into the Midwest and Northeast this week.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • Portland is sitting under a mild southwesterly flow allowing for warm early morning temps that stuck around 50-55 overnight.
    — oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Generally calm winds turn southwesterly before dawn, helping boost temperatures a notch.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The addition of sunshine along with a mild west to southwesterly breeze will help push temperatures into the upper 60s to near 70°.
    — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • By Monday, the upper flow pattern will shift more southwesterly, allowing low pressure to develop in the central Plains and move northeast.
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The First Alert Weather team is forecasting southwesterly winds at about 5-10 mph throughout the game with the Jets.
    — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Temperatures reach near 50 again today before the real warm-up arrives tomorrow, as southwesterly flow sends 60s our way.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
  • As southwesterly winds persist into Wednesday, Houston afternoon temps should land in the lower 80s.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Beyond the weekend, a persistent southwesterly flow and a slow-moving storm system to the west will keep daily chances for rain and thunderstorms in the forecast through at least Wednesday, and possibly longer.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Temps will be near to slightly above normal, with highs rising into the mid and upper 80s, except across the Cape and Islands where southwesterly flow will likely keep things a bit cooler.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 20 June 2025
  • South and southwesterly flow during daytime hours each day will help disperse and transport the smoke across the South Carolina/North Carolina border.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The temperature climbed into the low 90s Monday afternoon as sunshine and a strong southwesterly breeze combined to heat us up about 20 degrees above normal.
    — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Lingering high pressure and a southerly-to-southwesterly flow pattern are typically associated with warmer temperatures here in the South.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Upper level winds will blow southwesterly through the evening, and surface winds will be north/northwesterly keeping the smoke from the Bedrock Fire confined to eastern Lane County and points south and east.
    — oregonlive, 31 July 2023
  • Northeasterly winds in the morning shifted to a southwesterly/upcanyon direction this afternoon with gusts around 20 MPH.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Storm development will be influenced by a phenomenon called lee cyclogenesis — when southwesterly winds over the Rockies generate low pressure on the eastern side.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Winds will likely shift Thursday from southwesterly to a northwesterly direction, lashing a tinder-dry landscape that McHale compared to a month-old Christmas tree being torched.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2021
  • While overnight humidity recoveries are still only moderate at best, a weather pattern transition featuring more westerly to southwesterly flow will slightly improve the humidity today and into the next several days.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2025

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