Prevailing Westerlies are the winds in the middle latitudes between 35 and 65 degrees latitude. They tend to blow from the high pressure area in the horse latitudes towards the poles. These prevailing ...

Prevailing wind patterns are due primarily to the Earth’s rotation, causing an effect known as the Coriolis deflection. In the Northern Hemisphere, Coriolis imparts a right-hand turn to winds that ...

It is certainly correct that a general west-to-east movement of weather systems prevails across the United States and most of Canada. These winds are known as the “prevailing westerlies”. However, not ...

In May 2022, a group of monsoon researchers conducted "Earth Summit Mission 2022: Scientific Expedition and Research on Mt. Qomolangma" within the Himalayan Mountains. This mission implemented new ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --New analysis of dust grains dredged from the bottom of the North Pacific suggests the westerlies moved toward the poles during the warmest stretches of the Pliocene, between 3 and 5 ...

HOUSTON – (June 6, 2023) – Climate scientists at Rice University have discovered an “internally generated periodicity” — a natural cycle that repeats every 150 days — in the north-south oscillation of ...