GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After the devastation of Hurricane Helene and now Hurricane Milton hitting Florida, reports have been spreading on social media that hurricanes never cross the equator. This is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Nov. 8 about hurricanes and typhoons, The Associated Press reported erroneously which direction the storms rotate. They spin counterclockwise north of the equator and ...

Here's why all hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere All hurricanes in the northern hemisphere have one thing in common: they spin counterclockwise. The direction is caused by ...

There is a rare phenomenon that can occur when two tropical cyclones are nearby. This is called the Fujiwhara effect. This can happen when there are two tropical systems, like hurricanes that rotate ...

Picture a hurricane: A huge wind storm traveling in a circle around the eye. Weirdly enough, every hurricane you see spins counterclockwise, and you’ll never see one in the Southern Hemisphere. In ...

Let's flush out the truth in this VERIFY question. A few weeks ago, we verified a weather phenomenon called the coriolis effect, which makes tornadoes and hurricanes spin a certain direction in ...

This structure signals the development of a closed circulation—winds rotating continuously around a center. In the Northern Hemisphere, this rotation is counterclockwise; in the Southern Hemisphere, ...