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Polar easterlies

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in tropics, the polar easterlies are often weak and irregular. Note, winds are named based on where they came from. The polar easterlies are one of the five primary wind zones, known as wind belts, that make up our atmosphere's circulatory system. This particular belt of wind begins at approximately
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Glossary of Meteorology (2009).They are called Easterlies because the blow from the east
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outflow of air; that outflow is then deflected westward by the
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60 degrees north and south latitude and reaches to the poles.
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Dry, cold prevailing winds within Earth's polar regions
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at the poles creating high pressure zones, forcing an
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