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Old 17-08-2020, 14:23   #1
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Understanding Counter-Clockwise Motion of Low Pressure Systems
If the Coriolis effect causes the wind to go right in the northern hemisphere, how do low-pressure systems go counter-clockwise (in the opposite direction of the coriolis effect)?

This is something that has been troubling me and I have not been able to find a good explanation.
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