Why does storms change its direction?

Answer 1

It's all to do with atmospheric conditions, air temperature and ocean temperatures, as well as locality.

The first condition that needs to be present is a low pressure system.

Cyclones are caused by warm tropical moisture bearing clouds developing in open oceans or seas. Cyclones can only form over warm waters in the tropical regions of the oceans where the sea temperatures are 26.5 degrees Celsius or higher. They occur in areas of very low pressure when air that is heated by the sun rises rapidly, and becomes saturated with moisture which then condenses into high thunderclouds. As the atmosphere becomes favorable for development (no wind shearing in the higher parts of the atmosphere), normal thunderstorms clump together.

When the hot air rises, cooler air rushes in to fill the area left vacant by the hot air. The Coriolis effect of the Earth spinning on its axis causes the air to spiral upwards with considerable force. This in turn causes the winds to rotate faster, causing the tropical low to deepen in intensity into a tropical depression, and eventually a cyclone which is anywhere between hundreds of kilometres to thousands of kilometres wide.

Answer 2

because of the rotation of the earth spinning.

Wow, the earth's spinning is rotating. Look up 'pleonasm'

Fronts are generally guided by winds aloft, but do not move as quickly. Cold fronts and occluded fronts in the Northern Hemisphere usually travel from the northwest to southeast, while warm fronts move more poleward with time. In the Northern Hemisphere a warm front moves from southwest to northeast. In the Southern Hemisphere, the reverse is true; a cold front usually moves from southwest to northeast, and a warm front moves from northwest to southeast. Movement is largely caused by the pressure gradient force (horizontal differences in atmospheric pressure) and the Coriolis effect, which is caused by Earth's spinning about its axis. Frontal zones can be slowed down by geographic features like mountains and large bodies of warm water.[2]

Answer 3

All large scale storms and storm systems are low pressure systems or are associated with low pressure. Air is pulled toward low pressure and away from high pressure, and so is pulled inward by such systems. However, as a consequence of earth's spin, air in large scale systems that aren't too near the equator gets deflected when a force is applied. this is called the Coriolis Effect. In the northern hemisphere air is deflected to the right of the direction of pull, causing low pressure to rotate counterclockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere it is deflected to the left, causing low pressure to rotate clockwise.

Rotating thunderstorms called supercells, which are the primary producers of tornadoes, get their rotation from vertical wind shear, or differences in wind speed and/or direction at different heights. This rotation then goes into any tornadoes spawned by the supercell. Non-supercell tornadoes may get their rotation from localized shear.

Answer 4

Atmospheric areas of low and high pressure exist naturally due to fluctuations in temperature and a rotating Earth. These differing areas of pressure result in a net force from the high pressure system to the low pressure system. This force pushes everything in front of it in the same direction. You may have heard of this effect, it's called wind. Wind moves storms.

Answer 5

Storms can change direction due to shifts in wind patterns at different altitudes, the interaction of different air masses, or the influence of other weather systems nearby. These factors can cause the storm to veer in a new direction as it moves across the atmosphere.

Answer 6

Depends on the hemisphere... counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

Answer 7

The winds in a hurricane rotate around a center. The center of that rotation is in the eye. So when you go from one side of the eye to the other, you cross the center of rotation.

Answer 8

The Coriolis effect causes causes storms to spin clockwise or anti-clockwise depending on what hemisphere they are in

Answer 9

Because the climate change