Isotach

Isotachs are lines of equal wind speed on a map. Isotachs are most important to meteorology as a lot of weather phenomena is dependent on the wind. In addition wind speed is important to air travel as air traffic controllers try to get the wind behind the air craft in effort to save on time and fuel. The map below shows isotachs at a particular time for the continental united states.





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