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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (16 children)
[–] [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.

[–] electrogamerman 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So the thing about the toilet water spinning in the other direction in the south hemipshere is true?

[–] msgomez06 7 points 1 year ago

No - the direction the toilet water spins depends on the small scale vortices created when you flush. The Coriolis effect is slow - it acts at a much longer time scale.

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