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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Which is why we call it the Coriolis effect rather than the Coriolis force