1.   Ragged flotillas of cloud sailed before a brisk west wind.

2.   Two minutes later, on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome, the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind.

3.   Both the lack of snow cover and a nearby moisture source also enhances the warming of west winds on the high plains.

4.   A west wind blew stiff and steady all morning, and I never really warmed up.

5.   Brisk west winds will scour out the Arctic chill of recent days, in all but the deepest valleys of Idaho and Montana where some ice is still possible.

6.   But get here it does, riding the west wind, just as the British Open Championship itself blows back into this most unheralded venue.

7.   Fortunately, there was a west wind, so they set sail and headed home.

8.   In other words, the west wind is likely to blow east.

9.   It will be much warmer in the Plains as west winds descend the Rockies.

10.   Most eastern Pacific hurricanes move harmlessly into open waters carried by the east to west steering winds that dominate the tropics.