January 1984
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The summer coastal winds of 1982-3 were anomalous in two respects: 1) the effect of cyclonic perturbation was stronger in the south, resulting in weaker seasonally integrated longshore winds and a larger than normal eastward (onshore) component; 2) in the north, the cumulative longshore wind was slightly stronger than normal, with more upwelling, colder water and lower air temperatures at the coast. The cause of this may perhaps be found in steeper cross-coastal pressure gradients with a stronger component of geostrophic wind aloft.-from Authors English