Why do windmills in Ireland turn clockwise and the rest of the world counterclockwise?
445691
You can make a windmill turn any way you want, depending on how you place the blades and which way they angle.
770633
There is no "anti-clockwise" in the universe.  If you look at anything rotating from the other side, it goes the other way.
365073
We will be telling that earth rotates clokwise and all heavenly objects are moving anticlokwise.\n\nOr we would make all clocks move in opposite direction and will be telling that earth rotates anticlockwise and others rotate in clockwise.
771264
WOW!  I can not believe that one has answered this question correctly. Internationally this was the Brits fault because of the breeze off the ocean most runners wanted the wind at their backs. Since the markings for exchange zone have to be consistent for any type of state, national or World records all the tracks have to marked the same way, thus all are now like the Brits with the wind at their backs.    Now all track marking and exchange zones are set for counter-clock wise running.
353639
they do not turn clockwise....... clocwise is a term that was coined after the invention of a clock.......the inventor decided to make the hands move in the same direction as the sun dial of the past.....
289183
Due to the effect, cyclones rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, contrary to popular opinion, it has no noticeable effect on the rotation of water in sinks and toilets - see the toilets/bathtubs section below.
718853
As much as I hate to contradict others, the East and West explanation is inaccurate. Hurricanes are in the Northern Hemisphere, while cyclones and typhoons are in the Southern Hemisphere. Another difference, which is caused by their location, is the direction in which they spin. The rotation of  the Earth causes hurricanes to spin counterclockwise, while cyclones go clockwise.
966020
Probably due to helicopter manufacturer patented design thing. It doesn't matter as to what direction the rotor should turn for so long as it goes along the direction of the blades.
595431
For the most part, yes. Low pressure systems in the Northern Hemisphere spin counterclockwise and Highs spin clockwise. The reverse is true in the Southern Hemisphere.
351133
yes, of course the rotation of the Earth contributes to wind. The Earth is turning at about 25,000 mph. Air wants to stand still...obviously, air is moving to a high extent, or we would have 25,000 mph winds! But, friction, differences in topography (mountains, etc.) cause the air to move more slowly, so we have what is apparent wind. And, a bigger contributor is pressure difference in hot and cold air. The circulation of the Earth cause High pressure areas to spin in a clockwise motion in the northern Hemispher, and Low pressure areas to spin in a counter clockwise direction. When these two approach each other, pressure gradients cause air from the high to flow to the low creating winds...the stronger the differences in the low and high, the faster the wind to fill the low. Nature "abhors" a vacuum..and a low is a kind of vacuum. And yes, wind contributes greatly to tides. Wind pushes water in front of it, and when the pushed water comes ashore, the effects of wind are quite dramatic...such as a hurricane surge! Gravitational differences in the moon/Earth set up causes water to raise or lower, depending upon that cycle...a raise in water is a High Tide, and lowering is a Low Tide.  And that gravitational difference can be very dramatic....look at the tides along the Eastern seaboard. In some areas, the tidal differences are measured in a few feet, in others, the differences are as much as 20 feet! In some areas, there are NO tides.
185111
It's easy to remember if you understand the basics of why the rotation happens. At the equator the air, moving with the earth, has a high west-to-east speed. In each hemisphere, heat drives a general equatorial-polar circulation of air. Because of the high eastward speed at the equator, in the northern hemisphere air moving north from the equator or south toward it appears to bear to the right due to Coriolis effect. (This is often illustrated by a funhouse turntable where someone rolls a ball from the edge toward the center. If the turntable is rotating CCW, like earth viewed from over the north pole, the ball curves right. If someone rolls the ball from center to edge it still curves right.)\nNow consider that air flows toward a low pressure system, and any air with a north or south velocity component curves right. This induces a CCW rotation. Similarly, air flowing away from a high pressure system and curving right induces CW motion. An interesting side effect of inflow toward a low is that conservation of angular momentum causes angular velocity, and thus wind speed, to increase as you approach the center of a low, but not in the case of a high. Thus lows tend to be much more dynamic and occasionally to spawn tornados. \nIn the southern hemisphere, motion along the equator-pole direction results in turning left, so low and high pressure system rotations are CW and CCW respectively.
90462
The wind always blows in the same general direction.  It usually blows from west to east, except between 30 degrees N. and S. of the equator. There, it blows from east to west.
20798
The Earth spins from west to east at about 900 mph. Looking from above the Earth's North Pole, the Earth rotates counter-clockwise around the Sun.
227951
Contrary to legend, it depends on the sink - not the hemisphere. The Coriolis force (which makes large scale currents and weather patterns turn clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern hemisphere) is really too small to matter in a sink/toilet. The geometry of the sink and the motion of the water before you pull the plug plays a much larger role.
589353
Neptunes axis spins counter clockwise. the rest also do the same except three of them; venus:clockwise, Uranus: rotates on side, Pluto: rotates down
356086
it depends whether u live north or south of the equator. the culprit is called coriolis force. it is proportional to omegaXv where omega is the eaths angular momentum. since its a cross product and v is different in north and south. the direction (clockwise or anti) is thus different.
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It doesn't. Go south of the equator and you will see it spins clockwise.