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No hurricane has ever crossed the equator (i.redd.it)

submitted 2 years ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 years ago

Apparently,

Because of things like Coriolis effect and convective currents, there just aren’t winds that blow across the equator, not at the scale that would blow a hurricane from one hemisphere to the other anyway.

Winds tend to blow along and away from the equator, not across it.

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