what is the crolis effect?

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Answer 1

The Coriolis effect explains why macroevents such as hurricanes rotate in a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer 2

None of the answers have yet seemed to hit on WHY it happens. It is due to the fact that if you stood on the equator, you would be travelling faster than anywhere else on earth - you would rotate through about 40,000 km in 24 hrs (over 1600 km/hr). As you move further and further from the equator, you travel less distance each rotation, so you are moving slower as the earth turns.
Therefore, as the side of any storm, water, etc facing the equator is travelling slightly faster than the other side, it causes the storm or whatever to spin in different directions depending on which hemisphere you are in.

Answer 3

I think your spelling is off, try the Coriolis effect. It has to do with motion of curving matter on a rotating surface. I don't know the exact definition, but it is the reason why water "funnels" in one direction down a drain in the Northern hemisphere or why low pressure systems in the Northern hemisphere tend to move to the northeast.

Answer 4

Do you mean Coriolis effect? That is the tendency of weather systems to spin clockwise south of the equator and counterclockwise north of the equator caused by the earth's turning.