if you are standing on the exact north (or south) pole, what is the wind direction?
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Winds are named for the direction they come from so at the North Pole, the wind would be a south wind and for the South Pole, a north wind.
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From USA Today:\n\n"Q: Why does most of our weather come from the west if the Earth is rotating the opposite way?\n\nA: When looking down at the North Pole, the Earth spins counterclockwise around its axis. A point on the equator travels at about 1,100 mph, while a point directly at the poles does not move at all. An apparent force called the Coriolis force results from this difference in speeds, deflecting objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis force, combined with solar heating patterns across the Earth, create distinctive wind patterns that drive weather systems.\n\nOne prevailing surface wind pattern that results is located in the mid-latitudes, between 30 and 60° North. Solar heating alone, without the Earth's rotation, would produce prevailing southerly winds. The Coriolis force, however, deflects these winds to the right, creating prevailing winds out of the west and southwest (the westerlies). \n\nSolar heating patterns in the tropics, from the equator to about 30° North, combined with the Coriolis force, produce weak prevailing winds out of the east (the easterlies). Southern regions of the USA, including Florida, are affected by the westerlies at times and the easterlies at others."\n\nHope this helps explain it. Check the first link for other weather questions and second link to see a full explanation of the consequences of rotation on weather.
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go to nasa world wind and load it and you can see for yourself
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Only here in the temperate zone. The wind blows the right way near the poles and the equator.
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Zero As the north pole . IT is only a point. Do youwant instead superficy of Antarctica?\n\nif you see my link 14.2 millions km^2
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a compass tells you which way is north. once you know where north is you can tell in which directions south, east, and west is.
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While the question/answer below is about weather, the information is the same for just wind.\n\nQ: Why does most of our weather come from the west if the Earth is rotating the opposite way?\n\nA: When looking down at the North Pole, the Earth spins counterclockwise around its axis. A point on the equator travels at about 1,100 mph, while a point directly at the poles does not move at all. An apparent force called the Coriolis force results from this difference in speeds, deflecting objects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. The Coriolis force, combined with solar heating patterns across the Earth, create distinctive wind patterns that drive weather systems.\n\nOne prevailing surface wind pattern that results is located in the mid-latitudes, between 30 and 60° North. Solar heating alone, without the Earth's rotation, would produce prevailing southerly winds. The Coriolis force, however, deflects these winds to the right, creating prevailing winds out of the west and southwest (the westerlies). \n\nSolar heating patterns in the tropics, from the equator to about 30° North, combined with the Coriolis force, produce weak prevailing winds out of the east (the easterlies). Southern regions of the USA, including Florida, are affected by the westerlies at times and the easterlies at others."\n\nHope this helps explain it. Check the first link for other weather questions and second link to see a full explanation of the consequences of rotation on weather. \n\nSource(s):\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/weather/resource...\nhttp://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/...
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OK, so it's a little confusing to me, but apparently the magnetic pole close to the north pole is actually a south magnetic pole.  So for some strange reason, the north pole of a magnet bar will be attracted to the south magnetic pole which is located near the north pole.\n\nNorth poles on a magnet are very easily found.  When you bring a magnet up to a coil, and move the north pole back and forth, you will get a current flow in a particular direction (counter clockwise).  \n\nIf you wish you can create your own magnet.  This way you can decide which end is north, and see which end points north.  You need to pass current in a counter clockwise motion.  Use your right hand and make a thumbs up sign.  Your fingers are pointing in the direction of the current, and your thumb is pointed in the direction of the north field.\n\nBest way is to take a wire and wrap it around a bolt at least 10 times.  Current leaves a battery on the positive terminal and enters the battery on the negative terminal.  Make sure you keep track of the direction of current flow.  Then use the right hand rule I indicated above.  The thumb shows the direction of the north magnetic pole.  I wish I could draw you a diagram.
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The Earth is tilted at an angle of about twenty three and a half degrees.  This is the reason why North and Magnetic poles are not at the same place.  \n\nAnyway, in the Northern winter, the North Pole is angled away from the Sun, with the South Pole therefore being angled towards the Sun.  The result is 24 hours night in the north, 24 hours day light in the south.  This is the southern summer.\nNow remember that the Earth maintains this angle throughout its orbit.\nSix months later, the Earth is on the other side of its orbit around the Sun.  Still maintaining the same tilt, now the North Pole is receiving 24 hour day light, and the South Pole is in darkness.  Northern summer, southern winter.\n\nThe Arctic and Antarctic circles mark the limit of this 24 hour daylight, and the Tropic of Cancer (North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (South) mark the limits of the maximum travel of the Sun at it appears in the northern and southern skies.\n\nAt the Spring and Autumn exquinox, the Earth is such that the Poles are receiving equal amounts of sunlight.  Equinox means "equal night".  \n\nI down know any particular websites but try the NOAA and BBC weather sites.\n\nADDITION: To Glenn Blaylock.  Thank you very much for the correction.  I'll read up on my error.
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Where will a compass point at the South Pole?\n\nNorth!\n\nAt the geographic South Pole a magnetic compass points at the South Magnetic Pole, off the coast of Antarctica in the Antarctic Ocean south of Australia (very close to the direction of Adelaide).
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Direction of Magnetic fields are in North To South direction\nIn a circular ring magnet, the direction is Clockwise in N-S Direction
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your not that smart. north is not the sky, and south is not the ground. look the direction the sun rises, thats east. now turn your self 90 degrees to the left, thats north, turn another 90 degrees to the left, thats west, and where the sun sets. turn another 90 degrees left, thats south.     and most maps have a compass rose on them, it shows which way is north.\n\nyou were obvisouly NOT a boy scout
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Lots of unnecessary complications here.\n\nAirspeed is the hypotenuse. 20.4 is the side opposite the angle we are looking for.\n\nThe heading, east of north, must be at angle sin^-1(20.4/241).\n\nSpeed relative to the ground is the third side of the triangle, and is \n\nsqrt(241^2 - 20.4^2)\n\nZidane has got the angles all wrong. The wind is from the east. We want to fly due north. That's where the right angle is. 241 is the hypotenuse of the triangle. The wind serves to make the ground speed less than 241, not greater.
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The North pole is over sea, South is over land.\n\n\nPolar bears in the North, Penguins in the South.
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Nowhere.  Wind is caused by changing temperatures and air pressure.  It eventualy stops because of resistance and when the air pressure evens out.  It is then going nowhere which is the answer to your question.
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I suppose you know the air moves from high pressure to low pressure. The more difference in pressure the faster the wind.\nHowever the rotating earth gives complications. On the Northern hemisphere wind gets a deviation to the right (looking in the direction of the wind). This is the law of Buys - Ballot.
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Neither.  It is more of an oval thanks to the strong magnetic pull at the *top* and *bottom* (North and South Poles) of the earth which also have to do with gravity.  Were these features any different, the fowl of the air would not know where to go in the winter.