What will happen when the Earth’s poles swap?
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How Does the Coriolis Effect Affect Winds?
Our weather systems are determined by something called the Coriolis parameter. This is how fluids around the Earth respond to a change in the proportion of spin theries from the equator to the poles. What that means is that rather than air blowing straight from high to low, it is apparently deflected to the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere. So if looking simply at the planet, most of the sunlight is down on the tropics, that's what heats up most.
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