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

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Does anyone know what the reason for this is?

[-] [email protected] 54 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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's the same (but even more dramatic) with Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHwkdcppsuo

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