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A friend of yours who is traveling the world reports that she recently experienced a day on which the surface wind blew from the southeast while simultaneously the clouds overhead were moving from east to west. Independently, she is made aware of the fact that on that day the PGF was the same at the surface and at the cloud height. What hemisphere was she in at the time

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Answer:

At that time, she was in the southern hemisphere

Step-by-step explanation:

She is witnessing the southeastern trade breeze because the cloud is passing from east to west and she is also witnessing a storm from the southeast.

Because of the Coriolis effect, which deviates the atmosphere in the left-hand side of the southern hemisphere and generates a southeastern wind, this wind did not blow directly from south to east.

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