Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 07, 2009 at 22:07:38 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Daylight saving time posted by John Lambert on May 07, 2009 at 21:26:44:
But if the prevailing winds in the Pacific were mainly westerlies, they would pull the surface water towards the coast of South America.
No; I said they were blowing westwards, that's from the East. They're easterlies, not westerlies. I find the terminology, even if hallowed, horribly confusing, which is why I checked and posted a followup. And the reference to the map of prevailing winds. AND specifieed that it was in the southern Pacific; it's different further north.
Now my brain hurts... Or would, if it didn't nowadays consist of chicken soup. Which, I'm told, is quite similar in consistency to the real thing. Chicken soup, or porridge.
Blow the wind southerly...