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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

The coriolis effect is a fictitious force, it's just an artifact of not doing measurements in an inertial reference frame.

Edit: If I were to attribute it to anything, I'd attribute it to the actual rotation of the earth.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As the highs lows are part of the earth's atmosphere and thus trapped in a non-inertial frame of reference, they indeed experience the fictitious forces, such as the Coriolis and the centrifugal force.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

The coriolis effect is not an actual force, that's all I'm saying.