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May 3, 2005, Western Hemisphere of Earth. Noted the equatorial air masses are mostly undisturbed by the semi-hemispheric air masses at both poles. There are exceptions such as noted from the equator heat transfer system traveling over Brazil to the Antarctica Vortex.