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No hurricane has ever crossed the equator (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently,

Because of things like Coriolis effect and convective currents, there just aren’t winds that blow across the equator, not at the scale that would blow a hurricane from one hemisphere to the other anyway.

Winds tend to blow along and away from the equator, not across it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's the same (but even more dramatic) with Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHwkdcppsuo

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