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No hurricane has ever crossed the equator (i.redd.it)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Anybody have an ELI5?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I believe it’s because currents of air rotate in the opposite direction. So to cross the equator the air would have to pass a boundary of global air currents which are going counter to the hurricane’s motion. See this picture for a reference.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I knew it. Hurricanes are magnetic.

[–] bfg9k 15 points 1 year ago

Fuckin hurricanes, how do they work?

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