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I'm curious as to how the sunset should predict the next day's weather when in the Northern Hemisphere your weather comes from the East? boy, howdy! talk about your wrong-headed notions. see jet stream.
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Maybe a stupid question , but do we call East East and West West because the North Pole is orientation center? What if the South Pole was?
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East and west derive, respectively, from the PIE roots aus-, meaning 'shine', referring to the sunrise, and wes-pero-, meaning 'evening'. That would not change if the South Pole were the orientation center.
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Well, I've always called it Seattle International Airport, but that's just me.
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Especially for Bran: I learned an expression when I moved to rural New York: "Dutchman's breeches" -- for a break of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.
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 oh, lordylord. Pants in the sky! But then what the hoop is this? This But right, this is true too: Dutchman's breeches: 1. Two patches of blue appearing in a stormy sky giving the promise of better weather, i.e. enough blue sky to make a Dutchman ....
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I'm curious as to how the sunset should predict the next day's weather when in the Northern Hemisphere your weather comes from the East? boy, howdy! talk about your wrong-headed notions. see jet stream. Upper level jetstreams notwithstanding, surface level weather still comes predominately from the East in the Northern Hemisphere, hence the problems for Europe that the Chernobyl disaster caused. Furthermore, jetstreams are relatively small in width, unlike the warm and cold fronts that move over continents.
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>surface level weather still comes predominately from the East in the Northern Hemisphere this is startling news to me, having lived in the Upper Midwest for 64 years and seeing nearly all of our weather fronts roll in from the west. "Fronts are guided by winds aloft, but they normally move at lesser speeds. In the northern hemisphere, they usually travel from some west to east direction (even though they can move in a more north-south direction as well). Movement is due to the pressure gradient force (horizontal differences in atmospheric pressure) and the Coriolis effect, caused by the earth spinning about its axis. Frontal zones can be contorted by geographic features like mountains and large bodies of water." -wikipedia prevailing westerlies
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Upper level jetstreams notwithstanding, ... Logic not withstanding, here in north central Texas, most storms and cold fronts come from the west or northwest and occasionally from the southwest. The only weather that typically comes from the southeast is due to tropical storms. I can't remember ever having any weather come from due east or northeast, but I'm sure there are exceptions. My parents live west of me in NM where they often get the same weather the day before I do, except as I mentioned tropical storms such as the remants of Hurricane Dolly which they got the next day instead.
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Here on a Northern coast the wind may come from all directions but mainstream is from West-South-and Northwest The weather is conversation piece nr.2, next to "Hallo how are you doing".
Westerns winds bring rain, storms and gales. Eastern winds bring dry continental periods. In summer sunshine and heat; in winter frost and snow.
The best expectations for a good iceskating period is the wind in the North- North East. Then ice will come and stay till the wind shrinks to the South-East.
Alas, Western winds prevail.
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