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To: WhiskeyX

Oh, so you mean bi-directional winds are winds that blow back and forth in the same direction, changing only infrequently?


153 posted on 01/04/2015 3:10:40 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: norwaypinesavage

“changing only infrequently?”

No, that is not how winds work, especially when the wind force is light and variable. Look at how trade winds have a predominate direction during a season when the wind force is substantial. When these stronger force winds occur within a boundary area between two major air masses such as the Hadley cell and the Mid-Latitude cell, the wind forces tend to cancel each other out except along the plane of contact, leaving a predominate wind flow in one direction or the opposite direction along the axis parallel to the boundary between the two major air masses.


160 posted on 01/04/2015 6:31:54 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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