Trade-winds Synonyms

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Winds that blow steadily from east to west and toward the equator over most of the Torrid Zone. The trade winds are caused by hot air rising at the equator, with cool air moving in to take its place from the north and from the south. The winds are deflected westward because of the Earth's west-to-east rotation.
Synonyms:
  1. trades
  2. prevailing winds

Trade-winds Sentence Examples

  • It has a hot, humid climate, relieved to some extent by the south-east trade winds.

  • The island's trade winds keep the summer season from being unbearably hot.

  • Southeast trade winds prevail from April to the end of November.

  • The coast has a warm, Mediterranean climate tempered on the eastern coast by southwest trade winds.

  • The trade winds give rise, in the region most exposed to their influence, to two westward-moving drifts - the equatorial currents, which are separated in parts of their course by currents moving in the opposite direction along the equatorial belt.

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