prevailing wind

Other forms: prevailing winds

Definitions of prevailing wind

1. noun

   the predominant wind direction
   “the prevailing wind is from the southwest”

   types:

   antitrades

   wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds

   trade, trade wind

   steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

   antitrade, antitrade wind

   winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics

   type of:

   air current, current, current of air, wind

   air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure