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Coriolis force is best explained with a spherical shape for the earth. You need the constant movement towards equilibrium to create weather disturbances with rotation and heat aiding in their development.
I disagree - especially if the world isn’t spherical! Coriolis is a pseudoforce - an illusion caused by frame of reference. Any actual force would be due to earths supposed rotation - not its shape.
You don’t think the sun and its motion are responsible for that heat and rotational motion/direction?
How do you explain the directional differences in rotation of weather systems between hemispheres?
Explanations are arbitrary and typically contrived. I don’t put too much stock in them as a result.
But for the sake of discussion, if the sun’s rotation (the path it travels in a day; not axial) caused storm vortices in one direction within the equator - would it not be reasonable to expect an opposite direction to the vortex spin on the outside of that rotation? Just like eddies in water?