Humboldt current Sentence Examples

The absence of rain here is ascribed to the action of the lofty uplands of the Andes on the trade-wind, and to the influence of the cold Humboldt current sweeping northward along the west coast of the continent.

The constantly prevailing wind on the Peruvian coast is from the south, which is a cold wind from the Humboldt current.

The heat is modified at many points on the coast, however, by the cold Humboldt current which sweeps up the west coast of South America from the Antarctic seas.