<adv.all> they earn more up north Let's go north! [ adj ]
situated in or oriented toward the north
<adj.all> the northern suburbs going in a northerly direction
coming from the north; used especially of wind
<adj.all> the north wind doth blow a northern snowstorm the winds are northerly
Northerly \North"er*ly\, a. Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
Northerly \North"er*ly\, adv. Toward the north.
Strong northerly wind produced wind chill readings of 15 to 25 below zero.
Cloud cover and blustery northerly wind kept temperatures in Oklahoma and western Texas only in the 30s and 40s during the afternoon.
Strong northerly winds ushered the cold air into the central U.S., bringing the 50-below-zero wind chills to North Dakota early Monday.
Strong northerly winds blew the cold air into southern Texas, where temperatures were as much as 40 degrees colder than at the same time Saturday, when highs were approaching 100 degrees.
Many of the island's purpose-built hotels are architectural horrors, but isolated Busta House - a former laird's home in North Mainland that claims to be Britain's most northerly luxury hotel - is well worth a trip.
The heroin used to come from central Asia through Turkey, across Bulgaria and then through Yugoslavia. But the conflict there has forced the smugglers to take a more northerly route through Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania.
Fierce northerly winds Wednesday blew a flock of arctic seabirds over Britain, one of the largest movements of little auks ever recorded here.
A green-coffee dealer concurred in the estimate of light damage, but said the current cold pattern is more northerly than in recent years.