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Following Trade Winds: The Route

Reid Stowe
ILLUSTRATIONS: NASA

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Reid Stowe will follow global trade winds as he attempts to stay out at sea. The benifits of doing this is that storms are less severe in this route.

The slides above show average wind speeds in the Atlantic and the Pacific, the direction of the Trade Winds and other atmospheric scenarios that Reid could face.

 

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