Im certain that’s because of tornado related physics and things. 👍
I’m guessing it’s because they rotate in different direction in the northern and Southern hemisphere.
So crossing would imply switching direction, which would require to put that energy “somewhere” and it’s physically not possible.
Can someone smarter than me explain why South America is seemingly immune to hurricanes?
I also want to know this.
The Coriolis Force | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36MiCUS1ro
Interesting that the western Pacific seems to have so many more category 5 than the Atlantic, and while the South Pacific and Indian Ocean have plenty, the South Atlantic has basically none.
really interesting. what’s the reason why?
Probably Coriolis effect? I’m not a professional meteorologist but I am an amateur meteorologist. I live in New Orleans and hurricanes follow somewhat predictable patterns. (Maybe not always where you can pinpoint exactly where they’re going but they tend to turn north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere.)
You can also look at some of the coastlines and see the millions of years of erosion from the same patterns once the continents moved more into what we have now.
The coriolis effect is a fictitious force, it’s just an artifact of not doing measurements in an inertial reference frame.
Edit: If I were to attribute it to anything, I’d attribute it to the actual rotation of the earth.
As the highs lows are part of the earth’s atmosphere and thus trapped in a non-inertial frame of reference, they indeed experience the fictitious forces, such as the Coriolis and the centrifugal force.
I’m going to say the Coriolis effect but… I don’t know?
Hats off to the little guys here and there who came close…
