If the earth spins counter clockwise from n pole and clockwise from s pole?

Question

does the clouds go the same way? in other words are the clouds and earth turning in the same direction. are their speeds alot different?

Answer 1

if that were to happen the earth's magnetic pole would do a shift which has happened longgg time before humans existed on earth every 180,000 years or so but if it were to happen now we would be in biggg trouble.

Answer 2

take an earth science class, that should help clear up ur misconceptions

Answer 3

All are traveling from west to east...

Answer 4

On Earth (as on most planets), the high level air currents in the temperate zones (often called "jet streams") turn around Earth, relative to the surface, in the same direction as the planet's surface spins relative to the Sun.

The direction of the "jet streams" influences the movement of weather systems.  Therefore, weather systems (e.g., Low pressure systems) in temperate zones tend to move eastward.

If the Earth had been rotating the other way from the start, then it is expected that the jet streams would be moving in the other direction.

However, in the equatorial zone, weather systems move in different directions.  For example, Tropical storms in the Atlantic (the ones that occasionally hit the Eastern USA) travel westward across the Atlantic.   When they hit the Gulf Stream warm water current, they often veer northward.  Once they move sufficiently North to enter the temperate zone, they will usually (not always) turn East.

The other thing that Earth's rotation affects is the direction of winds around a Low Pressure centre (and around a High Pressure centre).  Air tends to move from high pressure to low pressure.  Even if the low pressure is stopped relative to Earth's surface, the "air packet" that leaves the high going for the low will have a "rightward" speed component compared to the low pressure centre.  (This description is for the Northern hemisphere -- it is reversed in southern hemisphere)

As far as the moving air is concerned, it is as if the low pressure was drifting to the left.  This is called the Coriolis effect.  It is entirely due to the fact that Earth is rotating.

If the spin were the other way, then the winds around a low pressure centre would be the other way around.

Answer 5

Wow, lots of answers...some detailed, some not...I'll be short and sweet with my answer,

"Yes, the clouds spin the same way."  

Or more accurately, the atmosphere and the earth move together...if they didn't, if the earth rotated and the atmosphere stood still, there would be a heck-uv-a-wind blowin'!!  When wind does blow, it's because parts of the earth get warmer than others, and the rotation of the earth only contributes to how the winds blow.

Answer 6

Clouds does not affect by the spinning of the clock but to its wind current...

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Answer 7

Yes, cyclone rotation is triggered by earth rotation. It will reversed. But, of course, from space point of view, the situation will be symmetrical.