If the earth at its equator is moving at about 1,000 miles per hour,
(25,000 miles/24 hours) and progressively slower away from the equator, how is it that clouds can keep up and move right along with (or even surpass) the speed the surface below is moving. (For example, cold fronts in North America generally move from the northwest to the southeast, and clouds can make it in just a few days. Why do they even move s.e. at all? Wouldn't the surface just "run off" and leave them, so that clouds always would move west?
2006-10-17
17:18:44
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The Invisible Man
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