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  2. Westerlies - Wikipedia

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    An example of the impact of the westerlies is when dust plumes, originating in the Gobi Desert combine with pollutants and spread large distances downwind, or eastward, into North America. [8] The westerlies can be particularly strong, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, where there is less land in the middle to cause the progression of west ...

  3. Prevailing winds - Wikipedia

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    The westerlies play an important role in carrying the warm, equatorial waters and winds to the western coasts of continents, [13] [14] especially in the southern hemisphere because of its vast oceanic expanse. The westerlies explain why coastal Western North America tends to be wet, especially from Northern Washington to Alaska, during the winter.

  4. Chinook wind - Wikipedia

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    Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks. The coastal Chinooks are persistent seasonal, wet, southwesterly winds blowing in from the ocean.

  5. Roaring Forties - Wikipedia

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    The Roaring Forties are strong westerly winds that occur in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40° and 50° south. [2] The strong eastward air currents are caused by the combination of air being displaced from the Equator towards the South Pole , Earth's rotation , and the scarcity of landmasses to serve as windbreaks ...

  6. Where exactly is NC setting of ‘Where the Crawdads ... - AOL

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    The exact location of the North Carolina marsh isn’t given in the popular book (now a movie), but we used a few clues to come up with our best guesses.

  7. Trade winds - Wikipedia

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    The term originally derives from the early fourteenth century sense of trade (in late Middle English) still often meaning "path" or "track". [2] The Portuguese recognized the importance of the trade winds (then the volta do mar, meaning in Portuguese "turn of the sea" but also "return from the sea") in navigation in both the north and south Atlantic Ocean as early as the 15th century. [3]

  8. North Jersey native using Bergen County as background for ...

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    Residents of several Bergen County towns may notice some familiar scenes in an upcoming movie created by a North Jersey native. ... The movie is a retrospective look into the summer of 14-year-old ...

  9. Winds in the Age of Sail - Wikipedia

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    The Kuroshio Current tends to push ships northeast into the westerlies and towards North America. There are records of unlucky Japanese fishermen being blown to North America, but no records of any who sailed home. [2] It is easy to sail south and link up with the Indian Ocean trade. North China had few ports and little coastwise trade.