Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

The Coriolis Effect Everything that moves over the surface of the earth-water, air, animals, machines and projectiles-sidles to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern ...

Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby was a Swedish-born meteorologist who left quite a legacy behind. Rossby spent World War II training ...

That sensation of sideways motion is due to something called the Coriolis Effect, and it applies to both a merry-go-round and the spinning Earth. On Earth, inflowing winds from higher latitudes ...

The counterclockwise motion of most tornadoes has long been attributed to the Coriolis effect, the force caused by the Earth’s rotation. But, according to Houser, this is merely a myth.

Why did sea surface temperatures go up when summer air temperatures did not? This perplexing question arose after last summer ...

Whether it was learning about a supercomputer, earthquakes or how clouds form, students and families – through hands-on ...

You'll learn what words like "convection" and "Coriolis Effect" mean, and that will be very useful as you play the game. No pain, no gain...although you'll see there is very little pain ...

For this week, a high-pressure ridge over California will produce Santa Lucia (northeasterly) winds during the night and ...

If so, you could have detected the Coriolis effect, but to be sure you need to let the water stand for at least a day. You can read more further down this page about how US and Australian ...

This physical effect does explain how some massive natural phenomena like hurricanes behave. But on the scale of water in your sink – not so much.