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Around 30 degrees latitude is the approximate area of transition from the tropics to the middle latitudes. The tropics are lergely dominated by the trade winds, which blow out of the east. The middle latitudes are dominated by the premailing westerlies, which blow out of the west. The dominant wind pattern of a given latitude largely dictates the direction of storm movement.

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