Usually means: Wind blowing from the southwest.
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  1. southwesterly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. southwesterly: Merriam-Webster
  3. southwesterly, southwesterly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. southwesterly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. southwesterly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. southwesterly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Southwesterly, southwesterly: Wordnik
  8. southwesterly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. southwesterly: Wiktionary
  10. southwesterly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. southwesterly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. southwesterly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. southwesterly: Dictionary.com
  14. Southwesterly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. southwesterly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. southwesterly: Rhymezone
  17. Southwesterly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. southwesterly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. southwesterly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. southwesterly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. southwesterly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. southwesterly: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  situated in, or pointing to, the southwest
adjective:  (chiefly of a wind) coming from the southwest
adverb:  From the southwest
noun:  A strong wind or storm from the southwest.

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