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how would the temperature of a loctaion change if it received wind currents that originate at the north pole instead of the equator

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Warm air rises at the equator and moves toward the poles. At the poles, the cooler air sinks and moves back toward the equator. However, it is not this simple. Global winds do not move directly from north to south or south to north because the Earth rotates.

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