WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Nov. 8 about hurricanes and typhoons, The Associated Press reported erroneously which direction the storms rotate. They spin counterclockwise north of the equator and ...

There is a rare phenomenon that can occur when two tropical cyclones are nearby. This is called the Fujiwhara effect. This can happen when there are two tropical systems, like hurricanes that rotate ...

Here's why all hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere All hurricanes in the northern hemisphere have one thing in common: they spin counterclockwise. The direction is caused by ...

The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

Let's flush out the truth in this VERIFY question. A few weeks ago, we verified a weather phenomenon called the coriolis effect, which makes tornadoes and hurricanes spin a certain direction in ...

Picture a hurricane: A huge wind storm traveling in a circle around the eye. Weirdly enough, every hurricane you see spins counterclockwise, and you’ll never see one in the Southern Hemisphere. In ...

When a hurricane is approaching land, you might hear a meteorologist refer to its "dirty side", which is a reference to the storm's counterclockwise swirling nature helping to create some of the most ...