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To: Wilhelm Tell
You follow the jetstream. So planes flying the same direction will jump in it to use the boost, while planes flying against it will fly a more off-route to avoid it. If you look at flight times for two far apart east-west cities, notice one way is usually an hour or two longer than the same flight in the opposite direction.

And here you go, it's plotting a week of minimum/average/max windspeeds at altitudes up to 30Mm (10Mm is ~30M ft), over the FWD station.


56 posted on 12/28/2021 8:27:04 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

That’s neat. I didn’t realize that there is so much wind under 20000 ft.


58 posted on 12/29/2021 4:27:53 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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