If you've ever seen one of those swirly animations of a hurricane creeping ... by a super-powerful phenomenon called the "Coriolis effect." It causes the path of fluids — everything from ...

Global weather patterns are formed significantly by the Coriolis effect. Rising from the Earth’s rotation, this phenomenon causes air and water to deflect to the left in the Southern Hemisphere ...

A NASA animation shows how ocean currents silently ... that show up throughout the illustration are the result of the Coriolis effect. The Earth's rotation deflects the motion of water (or air ...

And why do they spin in the first place? The answer is a phenomenon called the Coriolis effect. NARRATOR: If you've ever watched the news during a hurricane or wintertime nor'easter, you've ...

On the surface, ocean currents are driven by winds and the Coriolis effect. At greater depths ... seawater over a 1,000-year journey. This animated map from NASA’s Scientific Visualization ...

This one takes some explanation, and it's okay if it doesn't make sense at first. We'll be covering some basic physics principles to answer this week's question. First, picture this. The Earth, of ...

It does. The three ingredients needed for hurricane formation are warm oceans, light winds aloft and a sufficiently strong Coriolis effect, an apparent deflective force caused by the Earth’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - First to bust a long-standing myth: The rotation of the earth and the Coriolis effect have no impact on what direction your toilet or swimming pool drains. They do, however, ...

So there is indeed a Coriolis effect, and we see it on grand scales -- hurricanes in different hemispheres tend to rotate in different directions, because the underlying Earth is spinning ...