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land breeze

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The direction of a sea breeze can vary depending on which is warmer, the land or the sea. Warm air rises and is replaced by cool air. When the land is warmer than the sea, the warm air rises drawing in the cooler air from the sea, creating an onshore breeze. The opposite happens when the sea is warmer than the land, drawing cooler air from the land creating an offshore or land breeze.

Gentle breeze blowing from the land towards the sea and affecting coastal areas. It forms at night in the summer or autumn, and tends to be cool. By contrast, a sea breeze blows from the sea towards the land.



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As the east paled with the first light of dawn we got under way again, and hauled close on the land breeze as we slanted across the bay toward Point Pedro.
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A light land breeze was blowing, and the ship had been worked through the harbor's mouth under scant sail, but now that they had cleared the point every available shred of canvas was being spread that she might stand out to sea as handily as possible.
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As they hung wavering in the opening, the broad strait before them, and their quarry fast diminishing to small specks upon the distant horizon, a vagrant land breeze suddenly bellied the flapping sail.
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