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Coriolis force. Imagine standing exactly at the north pole. Take one step away, and your foot experiences a slight sideways force because the ground you have stepped on is moving sideways, (rotation of the earth), and it wasn't at the north pole itself. Happens everywhere where the radius of rotation is changing. This effect causes the circulatory patterns you see on weather forecast maps.

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