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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southerly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a northerly/southerly etc route
▪ She followed the northerly route across Spain to Bilbao.
a northerly/southerly etc wind (=coming from the north etc)
▪ A fresh northerly wind was speeding the ship southwards.
a southerly/westerly etc direction
▪ A strong wind was blowing from an easterly direction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ Land's End airfield, inset, is the most southerly of mainland Britain.
▪ The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided, although little of its eastern half lay within the trench.
▪ Arran is the most southerly of the Inner Hebridean islands, 15 miles away from Ardrossan on the Ayrshire coast.
▪ It was the most southerly westernized town, the last in which we saw television aerials.
■ NOUN
direction
▪ Two split off and went in a southerly direction.
▪ They are mopping up in a southerly direction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Driven thirty miles north last night by continuing strong southerly winds.
▪ Horologium is far too southerly to rise over Britain or most of the United States.
▪ Land's End airfield, inset, is the most southerly of mainland Britain.
▪ The green itself was triangular, with the church of St Andrew standing at the southerly point.
▪ There was a mild southerly breeze.
▪ Water managers have already shut a gate north of the crash site to reduce the southerly flow of water.
▪ With the rain came a southerly wind, moderate at first but then steadily increasing until it built to gale force.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
southerly

South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo["o]l.) the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southerly

1550s (adj.); 1570s (adv.); from southern + -ly. Related: Southerliness.

Wiktionary
southerly

a. 1 coming from the south. 2 Facing the south; directed towards the south. 3 Located towards the south adv. 1 In a southward direction or position; towards the south. 2 From the south. n. A wind blowing from the south.

WordNet
southerly
  1. adj. situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course" [syn: southern]

  2. from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot south wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly" [syn: southern]

  3. n. a wind from the south [syn: south wind, souther]

  4. adv. toward the south; "the ship turned southerly"

  5. from the south; "a wind blew southerly"

Wikipedia
Southerly

Southerly (also known as Southerly Buster) is the name of a storm or front of air coming from the south.

In the southern hemisphere these can be cold and have bad weather.

Southerly (band)

Southerly is a United States musical act, a solo project of Krist Kreuger. The Madison, Wisconsin native started the project in 2001, releasing an EP, but put it on hiatus to focus on building his own independent booking agency, The Crow Agency. After picking the project back up, he took it on tour across the United States, Canada, and Paraguay.

Relocating to Portland in 2006 (and forming into a full band with Robert Bartleson on bass guitar, Ryan Heise (from System and Station, Protest Hill) on drums, and Casey Montgomery on guitar, accordion, organ and more), Southerly is set to release their new full length, Storyteller and the Gossip Columnist, in May 2007 on Portland's Greyday Records.

Southerly (journal)

Southerly is an Australian literary magazine, established in the 1930s. It is published in hardcopy and online three times a year, and carries fiction and poetry by established and new authors as well as reviews and critical essays. The Long Paddock is an online supplement, carrying additional material.

Usage examples of "southerly".

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.

The sandbar keeps building up from the southerly littoral drift, and they have to dredge it every few months.

Cape Malea is the most southerly point of Laconia in the Peloponnesus, renowned for its storms.

Acadia or Nova Scotia, describe our settlements as they lie in a southerly direction, as far as the gulf of Florida.

Jondalar turned away from the river they had been following, veering toward the west in their general southerly route, and traveled across country.

The Gakkos followed the ants: Hite, Gashpari, Leopold, and Bidandengero whished silently over moss and through ferns in a southerly direction.

Norway outside a warehouse facing arctic whiteness with a stoicism more southerly bulbs begin strobing faintly just at the thought of.

He had first been truly glad that he had them on the day when he, by then Lord Commander of the Royal English and Welsh Horse, had brought to battle a tardy, mounted force of CrusadersSpanish, Catalonian, Aragonese, Leonese, Asturian, Galician, Andalusian, Moorish, and Portuguese, with a light sprinkling of other nationalitiesthat had landed on the southern coast late in the winter and had been since playing hob in the most southerly counties.

Leader Alan Eastoe turned the AWACS Nimrod in a slow arc as he completed the southerly leg of his patrol at twenty-five thousand feet above the road which straggled across the Norwegian Finnmark from the Tanafjord to the small town of Karasjok.

September 7, the information before us showed that the westerly and southerly movement of barges and small ships to posts between Ostend and Havre was in progress, and as these assembly harbours were under heavy British air attack, it was not likely the ships would be brought to them until shortly before the actual attempt.

He had filed a day trip to Islay, the largest of the nearby coastal islands, but they made such good speed to their destination that he decided to continue on, picking up the Southerly Current.

Magnolia District, so called because a botanically challenged early explorer had mistaken its profusion of madrona trees for an unrelated species that graced more southerly climes.

In the beginning, they made their homes on some of the less rocky, more southerly islands, refurbishing ancient ruins, farming where decent soil remained, breeding small numbers of stock beasts on the strictly limited graze, fishing, and in times of desperation, raiding the coasts and riverways of their previous homelands to the west.

Southerly, near a broad shallow river, was allied to us by force the country of Tolteca, which I knew would march anywhere at my will, were I to point into the grinning mouths of Cerberus.

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.