I looked this up and it said the Coriolis effect so I looked that up and I have no clue what it’s talking about…
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Imagine you’re in a big bathtub full of water, and you have a special toy boat that you want to make move in a circle.
Now, if you were to stir the water with your hand to make the boat go around, you might notice something cool: the water near the drain starts moving faster and makes the boat spin around too. But if you’re in the Southern part of the tub, the water near the drain moves the other way, and the boat goes around in the opposite direction.
Hurricanes are like giant swirling storms in the sky, and they’re made of air. Just like the water in the bathtub, something called the Earth’s spin affects how they move. In the Northern part of the Earth, the air around a hurricane starts spinning counterclockwise because of how our planet turns. But in the Southern part, it spins the other way, clockwise, because of the same spinning Earth.
So, when you look down on a hurricane from above, in the Northern part, it looks like it’s going around to the left, and in the Southern part, it looks like it’s going around to the right. Just like your toy boat in the bathtub!
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