What if Earth Spun in the Opposite Direction?

[@nicklaforge]

Slight correction: North America should be more green in the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains should be a little dryer.

[@tarikmehmedika2754]

This video was waaaay to short because of how interesting it is and how different all of the climates will become.

[@dexterity_1st]

4:04 NOOO IT'S TOO SHORT

[@cvk4488]

In this scenario, even the north atlantic drift ahould reverse direction causing greenland, Labrador peninsula , Altantic Canada to have climate similar to that of europe while hudson bay waters would be much warmer. Europe will become a huge nunavut

[@olisomething]

due to the mediterrainian still probably being pretty warm in some places europe might just come out as a giant finland

[@christianlw5252]

The man did an hour video in 4 minutes. I like it.

[@jezuconz7299]

I thought I was watching a video from a big channel until I saw it wasn't! Keep it up man :)

[@Henry-I-H-N-I]

11.5 k subscribers isn’t big?

[@jezuconz7299]

@Henry-I-H-N-I it would've been 10 years ago

[@Henry-I-H-N-I]

@jezuconz7299 ok you’re quite right

[@amon8562]

​@@jezuconz7299 I'd say a little over 10 years ago

[@jezuconz7299]

@@amon8562 well yeah it would've been quite big on 2010 for example lol, but really my point here is that production is much better than an average 11.5k channel

[@forsagebone]

This video's way too short to feed my nerd brain. Regardless, I love it.

[@csarine]

This is underrated, keep up the good work

[@kevinabiwardani7550]

Boy, I can't imagine a dry deserted Yunnan, Savannah of Philippines, and Sahara Rainforest. Do you think Indonesia will have a drier Sumatra and wetter Nusa Tenggara?

[@littleantukins4415]

1:32 typhoons in cental america 💀💀💀💀💀

[@TASTEGROUND]

i would walk backwards

[@galaktormaster6770]

A group of people have decided to simulate a koppen climate map of a retrograde spinning earth if you're interested.

[@peter5.056]

I've been wondering about this for decades, and there simply must be a computer simulation to illustrate this.

[@crazydog1750]

There’s no telling just how different history would be. ESPECIALLY looking at Africa. A green Sahara has insane implications for humanity across the ages.

[@justsaying4303]

you also forgot the seasonal monsoons

[@shivjain]

Yeah same thought. I'm Indian and I was worried about it. If SW Monsoon becomes SE monsoon, western Ghats are too high; they shall sharply decrease the monsoon, creating a desert in Deccan Plateau. But the Thar desert will become a green area

[@tauceti8060]

How would this affect hurricane formation and path??

[@sbclaridge]

California would get hurricanes, and you'd probably have few hurricanes off the Atlantic coast of North America; subtropical waters on west coasts in our world are cold, and with the rotation of the earth flipped, the east coasts would now be the "west coasts" climatically-speaking. This would bring more-moderate conditions to the mid-latitudes of central and eastern North America, with less continentality than in our world. New England, Québec, and Atlantic Canada might have a climate like that of France and the UK (in our world), becoming more oceanic the closer you get to the Atlantic coast. You would probably see coastal temperate rainforests in places like Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. The Gulf of Mexico could still be quite warm though, as alluded to in the video. Although much-more confined, the Gulf of California on North America's southwest coast could be a good analog for what water temperatures might be like in this alternate world with reversed spin; the water temperatures in the Gulf of California can sustain eastern Pacific hurricanes during hurricane season there, despite the eastern Pacific waters at the same latitude being too cold. Tropical Atlantic hurricanes would be much like our eastern Pacific, with hurricanes moving away from North America. The differing geography would mean that such storms would travel across the Caribbean (and assuming it is warm enough) the Gulf of Mexico in the opposite direction; imagine paths like Hurricane Milton being typical. That said, storms couldn't simply cross Florida and reform in the open Atlantic as it would be too cold even during hurricane season.

[@neil330]

And tropical cyclones would spin clockwise in northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in southern hemisphere since coriolis effect is also reversed. Usual paths would change to west-east direction.

[@wasordx3245]

I thought you had 800k views instead of 800 from the quality of this

[@Montlev]

Just a heads up, you got the Earth's rotation direction on the thumbnail wrong. The Earth already rotates West to East

[@samu-4k]

shouldn’t eastern Siberia have a much more humid climate due to winds blowing inland? Would be similar to today Europe

[@Archangel657]

That is a possibility but its also much further north than mainland Europe - it'll be warmer, but not by much - so it'll likely have a similar climate to Scandinavia.

[@galaktormaster6770]

@@Archangel657 Kamtchatka and Sahalin would be provided with a similar climate to the UK and Iceland.

[@notakiwi7151]

i thought this was an alternate history video lol

[@Sergio1Rodrigues]

very cool video

[@noodengr3three825]

Superman caused this to happen to save Loius Lane back in the 70s. I don't remember these effects

[@pandablair4226]

Interesting.

[@picobyte]

The Netherlands would be a lot colder 🙃

[@mrsheldon9134]

I saw this hypothetical scenario before, I can't believe how much "better" a retrograde Earth would be.

[@coryhafer7285]

Yeah, too short. You were hitting it dude. There is still more of the world to go over. Not to mention if you compare a flipped rotation today to a flipped rotation at other points in the past.

[@danielbickford3458]

Nifty

[@Gigabrain1]

Interesting

[@AlexanderWootten-b3y]

pacific northwest and east asia should be flipped with east asia warmer than in real life

[@suhnih4076]

Wow