"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message
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What happens if a weather system (such as a depression or hurricane) crosses
the equator?

Does it stop and start spinning in the other direction?

The simple answer to this is that it doesn't or rather *can't*.

Frontal depressions don't form anywhere near the equator anyway
and even hurricanes can't form any nearer than about 5 degrees
from it. It's all to do with the Coriolis force. A hurricane could never
cross the equator as it is always being forced away from it.

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