The Wild and Windy Tale
Discovery
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How Do Hurricanes Spiral Right?
The reason why hurricanes end up spiraling right and spiraling different directions in the northern and southern hemisphere is because they spiral counterclockwise. Even though you are the wind blowing effectively in a straight line because the earth is spinning it ends up appearing as though it's bending to summarize there. So that is essentially like you are sitting above the earth looking at the earth spinning or you're sitting beneath the earth and the earth spinning. In the northern hemisphere storms always spiral counter clockwise and in the southern hemisphere they always spiral clockwise some times.
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