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You are attempting to locate your position relative to a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere. Where is your vessel located if the wind direction remains steady, but with diminishing velocity?

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You are attempting to locate your position relative to a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere. Where is your vessel located if the wind direction remains steady, but with diminishing velocity?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Hurricane wind circulation in the Northern Hemisphere (counterclockwise flow around the low-pressure center) • Relationship between storm motion and the wind you feel on a vessel (combination of storm’s circulation + its forward movement) • How steady direction but decreasing wind speed relates to whether the storm’s center is passing toward or away from you

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• Sketch a simple diagram of a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere, its counterclockwise winds, and draw a small arrow for the storm’s forward motion. Where would a vessel experience nearly the same wind direction even as the storm moves? • Think about what would cause the wind to diminish: is your vessel moving farther from the strongest winds, or closer to the calm center? How would that typically change the direction? • Compare what happens to wind direction and strength if you are ahead of the storm’s track versus behind it. In which case is a nearly constant wind direction with gradually falling speed more likely?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify how winds rotate counterclockwise around a low in the Northern Hemisphere and how that looks from the right versus left semicircles relative to storm motion. • Check what typically happens to both wind direction and velocity when the storm’s center passes ahead of you versus behind you. • Confirm which part of the storm you’re in if the wind direction stays nearly the same but its speed is decreasing as time goes on.

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Question 1 of 2066636ee928f7522a1c5191bf

You are attempting to locate your position relative to a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere. Where is your vessel located if the wind direction remains steady, but with diminishing velocity?

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You are attempting to locate your position relative to a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere. Where is your vessel located if the wind direction remains steady, but with diminishing velocity?

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