Shipping the outboard, he set the small sail, made a steady two or three miles an hour tacking across the light southerly breeze.

The chill north wind had become a gentle southerly breeze and, though it was still below sixty degrees, the sun beat down warmly.

The light southerly breeze slowly cleared the smoke.

The skies were clearing and the stars appeared through the clouds as they picked up a light southerly breeze.

The result, he said, was southerly breezes that brought extraordinary heat to the New York region.

At nights, a cool southerly breeze carries moisture from the Bay of Bengal.

Snowdrops nodded agreeably to crocus on the warm southerly breeze.

"We often get a few stretches of nice southerly breeze," he said.

The warm southerly breeze made it seem more like early summer than late March, the kind of day that would bring throngs to Central Park.

A southerly breeze brings only a light chop here, but a breeze from the east pushes in big rollers.