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[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm digging that one hurricane in south America that looks lost.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Ole, "wrong-way Carlos"

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think a better question is why are the northern hemisphere hurricanes so much more feathery and beautiful than those raggedy ass southern hemisphere hurricanes and tropical storms.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago

Because there are way more in the northern hemisphere I assume ? Probably due to greater differential between water and air temp in general in the northern hemisphere due to currents and shit

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

The form above 10^* lattitude. Their natural direction is to go straight towards their respective poles, but high pressure systems steer them with the trade winds. Extremely rare for a storm to even go slightly towards the equator

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Philippines truly drew the short straw here

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Getting hammered.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Massive if true.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, I didn't realize that Oman got hit by tropical storms.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

it's wild to think that we here in the nordics are apparently less safe from them than people in most of africa are!

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Im certain that’s because of tornado related physics and things. 👍

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's because they rotate in different direction in the northern and Southern hemisphere.

So crossing would imply switching direction, which would require to put that energy "somewhere" and it's physically not possible.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No. It's because the earth spins faster there. Them turning a certain direction is a result, not a cause.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A) The Earth spins at the same speed. What you are talking about is the tangential speed.

B) The tangential speed is not much faster at the equator than 100km South or North of it.

C) The speed difference would not explain why they don't cross the equator. It may explain (partially) why there are no hurricanes further away from the equator.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love it when people use bulletpoints to seem smart when they are so confidently wrong

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Considering that I did not use bullet points, I guess you are talking about yourself 🤣

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For someone being so hyper pedantic you failed to realize they didn't use anything even close to bullet points.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow! Tough crowd. Seriously, at least I explained my reasoning for why hurricanes do not cross the equator. All they did was make either wrong or poorly formulated claims without any kind of explanation, and then throw insults.

Saying that "The Earth spins faster" makes no sense, especially in this context: why would the equator spin significantly faster than 100km away from it?!? And why would this negligible speed difference prevent hurricane from crossing that line?

If you want to correct someone, at least do it right.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you want to correct someone, don't view it as an intellectual pissing match. You knew exactly what they meant.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Of course I knew what they meant, since I explained why I did not agree with their reasoning (point B in my answer).

Since this moment, you 2 have only been aggressive without contributing to the exchange.

I also tried to diffuse the emotions with humor ("Tough crowd", as if it was a comedy show). I've explained -again- why I didn't agree with their reasoning to go back to the topic.

And your answer double downs on agressivity... I'm out ✌️

In any case, you seem to have a lot of anger to pick up that kind of fight. Take care, buddy 🍀

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now you're tone policing. Just accept the critique of your pedantry and move on.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 days ago

You're just proving my point 😘 Take care 🍀

[–] MacStache@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

🎶ECUADOR! 🎶

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Huh, it looks like the hurricanes seem to move in a mostly east-west direction.

[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 5 points 6 days ago

A yo mama joke that only works with this context:

Yo momma's ass so fat, no hurricane dares to cross her ass crack.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's because when they cross the equator they become cyclones

[–] Eww@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Atlantic Ocean = Hurricane Pacific Ocean = Typhoon Indian Ocean = Cyclone

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 57 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not only is NZ on this map but it's not even way off in the corner!

[–] brrt@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

We drawing maps for 2000 years now experience pays out. :D

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m happy for NZ but it might be a good idea to stay hidden for the time being.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

We need a maps without nz Lemmy house

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That one little fella in South America - must have been confusing as fuck for them.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Poor thing. It set off and realized it was lost.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is the only one Brazil ever recognized as a hurricane. But it's believed that they happen every once in a while, they are just not classified correctly.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why wasn't it recognised as a cyclone? Was it spinning backwards?

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

As a hurricane, not as a cyclone. There's a minimum intensity necessary to get classified as a hurricane.

(I've written cyclone by mistake, and changed the comment. You may be reading an older version of it.)

[–] Subtracty@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can someone smarter than me explain why South America is seemingly immune to hurricanes?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Rainy season in Northern Africa has a lot of land to form storms from sand as cloud seeds. Gulf and Carribean sea are almost always hot in summer. Relatively shallow. Northern South America also has rainy season and helps form storms that go north.

South America doesn't get as much help from Africa storm formation, and south atlantic does not have a history of being very hot.

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago
[–] Inf_V@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

really interesting. what's the reason why?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stole explanation from r/ELI5:

When you stand on the north pole how fast are you moving relative to the earth’s core?

Zero, you just spin around in place once every 24 hours.

When you stand on the equator how fast are you moving?

1000mph, you have to circumnavigate the earth in a day.

This difference doesn’t matter much when you throw a baseball, but it absolutely matters when you’re a storm the size of a country. > This disparity in relative speed rotates the storm since the equatorial side is moving faster than the polar side, and it provides the swirling structure of the hurricane.

But here’s the problem - storms in the north spin counter-clockwise and storms in the south spin clockwise.

That means to cross the equator you have to stop and reverse direction. That’s not happening, and hurricanes never track near the equator because neither the storm itself nor the prevailing winds that push it around can approach this reversal boundary.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The equator itself is associated with very low wind speeds, aka the doldrums.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

Ah, the calm belt.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Probably Coriolis effect? I’m not a professional meteorologist but I am an amateur meteorologist. I live in New Orleans and hurricanes follow somewhat predictable patterns. (Maybe not always where you can pinpoint exactly where they’re going but they tend to turn north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere.)

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Interesting that the western Pacific seems to have so many more category 5 than the Atlantic, and while the South Pacific and Indian Ocean have plenty, the South Atlantic has basically none.

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