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Anthon

By Anthon
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Can anyone please explain why wind direction is more or less parallel to isobars.

 

I would have expected it to be at right angles as that represents a gradient between higher and lower pressures.

On land if you rolled a ball on a hill it would travel at right angles to the contours of a map - not along them!

 

Thanks in anticipation.

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