February 24th 06, 03:01 AM
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High and low pressure rotation
The Artist Formerly Known As Your Highness wrote:
On 23 Feb 2006 15:44:32 -0800, "Weatherlawyer"
wrote:
The Artist Formerly Known As Your Highness wrote:
On 23 Feb 2006 10:40:08 -0800, "Tony"
Could anyone please tell me why the air rotates around a low pressure
anti-clockwise and around a high pressure clockwise in the northern
hemishpere given that they are both subject to the same coriolis force
direction.
Try http://tinyurl.com/f3ytg for a succinct explanation.
That just shows a couple of diagrammes, it doesn't explain their
chirality. It can't-when you consider that in the North Atlantic, the
lower latitude storms move east to west and the higher latitude ones
move west to east.
Platitudes don't cut it. Try again. This time take account of the fact
that there is no "force" in the Coriolis Effect and that the winds in
the cyclones are immensely powerful and only come out to play when
there is calm weather.
It's a divine mystery.
Read it again, and comprehend it this time. It's not that difficult.
Really.
Really.
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