Re: [RCSE] Which Way Does a Thermal Rotate in the Nothern Hemisphere?

Dude, Since you ask Last night a show about tornadoes on The Weather Channel said that tornadoes can definitly be cyclonic or anti-cyclonic! They did a 'thing' with maps and stuff to show where the non-typical ones form in relation to the 'only' ones that should be forming in the northern

Re: [RCSE] Which Way Does a Thermal Rotate in the Nothern Hemisphere?

Coriolis effect only affects very large scale things, like air masses, where size is measured in hundreds of miles. For the Reynolds numbers and mathematically inclined: http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/coriolis/coriolis_force_sci_physics_faq.html -- Andrew E. Mileski Ottawa, Canada