Activity #5 - Wind Patterns

Today we learned that there are wind patterns that control the weather on the Earth. They also create the ocean currents too. With out them we wouldn't have trade winds or ocean currents such as the East Atlantic current . These wind patterns also determine where hurricanes and other storms at sea will travel and how much of an impact they will then have. In the North Pole these winds always travel in a circular motion to the right. They also do this in the South Pole too and these winds are responsible for the Polar Circulation. I found this helpful because I will need this information to relate how my climate is effected (and in turn effects places like Michigan).