The mercator projection accurately reflects navigational directions and
<span>the mercator projection also distorts the actual size and position of continents I hope this helped I had to answer a question like this a little while ago and this was right!</span>
Latitude lines are drawn horizontally across the globe whereas longitude lines are drawn vertically.
Well wind sheer can cut off the tops of storms. Wind sheer stops a storm and it's energy from moving upward. Because that energy is what is called latent heat and this is stopped, the storm cannot basically develop or continue on.