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Be careful, they'll tell you the equator doesn't exist. "How would hurricanes cross something that isn't even there", they'll say. 🤣

That map is, of course, fake. The hurricanes actually are in a ring around the edge of the world disk, and are in one continuous circle, not two parallel circles. The hurricanes are part of the wind system that keeps people from falling off the edge of the world. The wind always pushes you back. If you do manage to get through those winds somehow, you'll fall and end up on the back of the Great A'Tuin.

They built a big wall to prevent it. Simples! #sarcasm

Unfortunately, someone will.

The world folded once and hurricanes don’t travel fast enough to get through the crease

The equator is not real

Simple. It's like two sides of a coin. North is heads, South is tails

Coincidence

Topside and bottom-side of the earth? Can't get around the edge? 🙈

That's the edge!!! It only looks inexplicable if you're viewing it as if it's on a globe! §

These tracks include the post-tropical stages of hurricanes and tropical storms. No recorded storm has reached Ireland while retaining its tropical characteristics (same for other very non-tropical places like Kamchatka and Iceland). However, it is theoretically possible that a hurricane has or will hit Ireland; Hurricane Faith in 1966 officially underwent extratropical transition near the Faroe Islands.

Coriolis effect ftw.

Kind of but not exactly. It’s that the Corioles effect isn’t great enough at the equator to sustain a hurricane. Hurricanes cannot form within 5 degrees of the equator.

Well, duh to you too! Loads of folks don't (or didn't) know this. Thanks for your condescending info report.

That didn't cross my mind until you said it. I knew that was the case after you said it but it slipped my mind. You can educate without being mean. I'm thankful for your comment, but it's not very kind

LOL you bring out the best in everyone

Coriolis force

Well duh, sorry I didn't know Einstine.

Glider pilots look for thermal currents in the air. These thermals (just like tornadoes) all turn in the same direction. The rotation in such an ordinary bubble with rising air is minimal; glider pilots sometimes claim to observe an opposite spin. If that claim is correct, then this can also occur with major natural phenomena. If a twist is present, it is maintained by the rising airflow, even the ´wrong´ spinning direction and even if the equator is crossed.

Best comment. :)

Unfortunately that's not true. Galápagos penguins live on the Galápagos islands, which are located around the equator, apparently it's not too hot for them there (probably because of a cold current in the area). And the penguins that live on the northern tip of the Isabela island, actually live in the Northern hemisphere, so they crossed the equator. They are thought to have come to the Galápagos islands through a cold current, not brought by humans.

okay, i understand that this person may have gotten some things wrong, but it isn't a proper reason to downvote them, especially if there is a correction in the replies. they just made a mistake.