Word: southward
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...southward push became so urgent over Washington's Birthday weekend that even Bermuda, where the season usually begins at Easter, was overbooked, despite chilly temperatures. The crowds overflowed from the more popular islands like Jamaica and Barbados outward to lesser-knowns: Martinique, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Grenada are all filled to the gunwales. In Mexico, Acapulco is jammed and, in Puerto Vallarta, beach space is hard to come by. The big boom, which began before Christmas, reached its peak in mid-January and has stayed there ever since...
...across his maps, he recognized signs of trouble. The Pacific High, a mass of high-pressure air that normally occupies most of the area between Alaska and Hawaii, shielding California in winter from rain-bearing oceanic winds, was breaking in two before his eyes. Half of it had moved southward to the latitude of Mexico while the other half had shifted north ward to the Gulf of Alaska. Through the low-pressure gap that resulted, a stream of warm, moist, tropical air, 500 miles wide and dotted with storms, was flowing toward Northern California...
Canadian High. While the Pacific Northwest was suffering, the rest of the U.S. was enjoying unusually calm and warm winter weather. The Canadian High, another meteorological fixture, moved southward to cover the central part of the continent, protecting it from arctic cold and keeping the bad weather of the Pacific from penetrating much beyond the Rocky Mountains...
...build a $200 million pipeline that will dip over the border into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Three companies are competing to build a second gas line to link Texas and southern California at a cost exceeding $300 million. In Washington State the Olympic oil products pipeline is pushing southward to serve Seattle and Portland with oil from the rich fields of Canada's Alberta...
...Superhighway of the Sun," a four-lane expressway that avoids all cities and villages on its course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...