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Why does weather move from west to east? What is the driving force? Why doesn’t the drag of the earth’s rotation in the opposi

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I have a hard problem with using a density difference between daytime and nighttime since the argument can be used to explain flow in either direction.

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  • Asked by farside8
  • on 2010-09-03 15:34:15
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MikeAdams#367 says:

It depends on where you live. In most of Europe and N. America the majority of weather patterns do move W-->E but if you look at the formation of Atlantic hurricanes, you will see they move in the other direction. There are large global wind patterns that produce a series of alternating directions: NASA has a page about it at http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/nino/global.html

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