Atmospheric Circulation cells

Atmospheric! Circulation! Cells!  

Simply stated:  Winds and weather circulate around the Earth because of the rotation of the Earth and the energy from the Sun.  

On the other hand there is a whole bunch of things happening to make wind and weather.  The winds actually circulate in CELLS that wrap around the Earth.  These are HUGE systems that create our weather in our part of the world.  

Don't worry about the names of these atmospheric circulation cells, look at the way they circulate.  It's so cool how at each latitude there is a different direction and it has to do with how the Sun heats that part of the Earth.

This is a major part to how weather circulates from the Equator to the poles.  It's only part of the story, and there's still more...