Why can’t hurricanes cross the equator?

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They are tropical storms so why can’t they traverse the entirety of the tropics?

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In the north, they spin anti-clockwise. In the south, they spin clockwise. They match the direction of their spin so that it doesn’t cancel out due to the rotation of Earth. When a cyclone goes it the equator, it has to switch direction. Obviously, that can’t happen.

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