MetLink - The Coriolis Effect

What makes depressions, hurricanes and even the whole atmosphere rotate?
Without using equations, this short film gives an overview of the physics behind why things that ought to move in a straight line over the surface of our rotating planet, don’t, and why storms rotate in the opposite direction in the two hemispheres.
You can find more on the Coriolis Effect at the Royal Meteorological Society’s education website, MetLink, at www.metlink.or...