What are the “horse latitudes” and how did they get their name?
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Congratulations to all readers who submitted correct answers to the last Mindbender question and to Steve Levine, Manchester, MA, who emailed: “The tightly spaced isobars between a high and low pressure systems indicate strong winds. In extreme situations like this, the area can be known as a “squash zone” that creates very strong storm-force winds. The Perfect Storm was just such a squash zone.”
