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Re: prevailing winds
From
: John Denker <
jsd@MONMOUTH.COM
>
Date
: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:57:50 -0400
At 11:49 AM 5/13/00 -0600, Jim Green asked:
Why does the weather tend to move from west to east?
Small-scale weather systems are carried along with the prevailing
winds. At temperate latitudes (and not otherwise) the prevailing winds are
generally out of the west.
For some discussion of the general topic, see
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/atmo.html
and in particular section
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/atmo.html#sec_prevailing_winds
and most particularly the discussion of figure
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/atmo.html#fig_prevailing
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