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Hurricanes rotate because as wind drawn inward by the low pressure is deflected as a consequence of the earth's spin. Because Earth is "fatter" closer to the equator, lower latitudes move faster than higher ones. Air traveling north or south will resist this change in velocity. So, from the perspective of someone on earth, air that a hurricane (a term which applies to a northern hemisphere storm) pulls in from the north will be deflected to the west, and air pulled in from the south will be deflected to the east, setting the system rotating counterclockwise. The opposite happens for storm similar systems in the Southern Hemisphere.

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