A hurricane's spin and the spin's direction is determined by a super-powerful phenomenon called the "Coriolis effect." It causes the path of fluids - everything from particles in the air to ...

That’s due to something called the Coriolis effect. As Earth spins on its ... they begin swirling. As a result, hurricanes spin clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in ...

Yet they never cross the equator as a result of the Coriolis effect ... cyclonic spin, but weakest where it should matter most, at the equator. Without sufficient force , hurricanes cannot ...