To: Tropicalwatcher
Tell us more. How is this different?
2 posted on
04/18/2004 1:10:41 AM PDT by
Kay
To: Kay
Because a low pressure, in the Eastern Pacific normally spins counter-clockwise.
To: Kay
It's called the Coriolis Force. The earth is round so hurricanes spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere. The same force causes your bathtub water to drain counter-clockwise, but will drain in the opposite direction in a tub in Australia.
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