If weather systems are passing us from west to east they are going faster than us and faster than the land mass of the earth.
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That's because the Earth's spin is caused by electromagnetics.  Something about the electrical properties of these gasses in our atmosphere causes them to be spun around faster than the rest of the Earth.
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yes.\nit can be slowing down while travelling towards north. it has velocity northwards, but the acceleration is southwards
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the earth's orbital speed is 67 000 miles per hour.
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It all has to do with altitude. The higher you are from the earth, the colder it gets. Air is also thinner.
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about 1000 mph.\n\napprox #'s here--earth is 25,000 miles in circuvfrence, 24 hours per day.   this is at equator.\n\ni am thinking, the farther away from equator, the speed can be progressivly slower.
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They both travel at the exact same speed.  This was recently verified here : http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3232
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I have to believe that we are on a downward spiral. We are depleting the primeval rain forests which provide oxygen and burning fossil ie carbon fuels which produce carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, in addition to excreting sulphur which produces sulphurous and sulphuric acid. The westernised/civilised world is reluctantly taking small steps, but the 3rd world is increasing at an alarming rate.\nGlobal warming is a fact, and the result of this within this century will be frightening both in terms of sea-level rises and also hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones. Let us see what damage is caused in the Gulf of Mexico THIS year....
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Can the Earth sustain itself?\nOr us?\nThe earth will be around longer than we will.
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The further North you are, the more northerly the path of the sun appears as the summer approaches. It would be "south of west" only if the earth was flat.
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I agree with Flive.  - The earth's rotational speed only comes into play if you are launching a spacecraft out of the atmosphere and into orbit.  That's why all manned space flights have been launched from west to east, gives them an extra 1,000 mph head start.  But within the atmosphere it makes no difference which direction you fly (assuming no wind).
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They'll change back and forth, like weather forecasting.
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it's our planet and we're needing of changes for our future generation and they're being made but not fast enough.
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Our planet is a long way off of having a new ice age. The earth cycles seem to be on the warmer side. We will get through that then swing back to another ice age, thousands of years.
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Global warming is a situation that ius no longer in mans control. Lets face the facts mother nature cant take it any more. The tornadoes in America are a starting sign that mother nature is starting to wear out and she can't hold on any longer.Possible measures are being taken but i presume that we might just have a little over 100 years then this planet goes from one beautiful blueberry into a an ice cold jawbreaker. Lets face the facts we are after all human and will go for the pleasures of life then sit and think about the future. Now i think is a good time to do that thinking part, but we are a little too obsessed with fast cars and like u have stated SUV'S.
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Dominique sort of brushed why parts of the atmosphere can move so fast. The reason is the pressure gradient force. The jet stream is partially directed by Coriolis (Earth rotation) but mostly powered by large air masses that squeeze it into a narrow stream. The effect is much like the narrowing of a large river down a narrow canyon - the air gets squeezed into this meandering jet.\n\nNot all the atmosphere moves faster than the rotation of the earth, and atmospheric rotation has two separate components - that which rotates with the sphere and that which rotates more 2-dimensionally (vertical or horizontal) with respect to the surface of the planet. Some air is almost stagnant, but most moves around in all directions, only the jet streams have consistent westerly flows (west to east) which usually dips in wide northerly and sourtherly loops. \n\nThe core of the planet actually consistently rotates faster than anything else.
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Most weather is West to East because of the Coriolis effect which causes high altitude winds to blow from West to East.  The high alitude winds are a major factor in weather.  Not ALL weather comes from West to East, just most.  E.G. Tropical Storms
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I believe that is due to Earth’s gravitational pull.