Global Wind Belts! -> Horse Latitudes and Jet Streams!

While we were in class learning about global winds, the Coriolis effect, trade winds and all that other fun stuff, two categories stood out to me. The first one that I thought was pretty darn cool was the horse lattitudes. I thought this was interesting because we were told that when the horses ran out of food, the captain of the boat, who paid a whole lot of money for the horse, would toss it off the boat. Throwing the horses off also made the boat lighter in weight. The other category that stuck out to me was jet streams. If you were going from the east to west in a plane and went along the jet stream you could get to your destination faster. But if you went west to east along the jet stream it could take a little longer. I find it kind of crazy that some cold weak winds can affect our lives and the weather [in the U.S.] so much.