Warmer waters are fueling stronger, snowier storms—at least for now. Here’s how scientists think this phenomenon will evolve as the planet gets hotter. Steam is seen rising off a frozen Lake Michigan ...

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It affects ocean currents, weather patterns, and even the direction planes fly. The Coriolis effect has real impacts, but it’s actually just an “apparent force” that causes moving objects to be ...

Most of our weather comes from a force that doesn't actually exist. It just looks that way because we're standing on a rotating, spherical planet. You may have even heard of the coriolis effect before ...

For the second time in history, Hurricane Humberto has the opportunity to create an atmospheric phenomenon more commonly seen in the Pacific basin known as the Fujiwhara Effect. When two tropical ...

We’ll be discussing the coriolis force in this edition of Weather Tidbits. The coriolis force is an apparent force that deflects the path of air or an object due to the rotation of the Earth. Let’s ...

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Solar physicists have revealed how swirling plasma flows around sunspots 1, sculpted by the same Coriolis force that drives Earth's weather systems, shape the Sun’s rotation just beneath its surface.

Did you know that a hurricane or tropical storm has never crossed the equator? The reason behind this fascinating phenomenon lies in a meteorological principle related to the rotation of the Earth: ...