What would happen to weather around the world if the Earth started rotating in the other direction?
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About the last thing we'd need to worry about would be the weather.  But, hypothetically speaking, since weather patterns travel from west-to-east, they would simply change to east-to- west.  A major change, for example; England would no longer be a warm place to be, as the ocean stream that carries warm air from the carribean would cease.
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weather patterns would totally change, because only one hemisphere would get sunlight, the other would see only darkness.  also, the wind patterns would be completely changed, because they are caused by a combination of the heating at the equators and the Coriolis effect.
96027
The Earth rotates around the sun tilted at a 34 (is it?) degree angle, and rotates while moving around the sun. Because of the action, it creates different points of direct sunlight (though the equator still has the most direct exposure) and the regions where the sun directs rays to experiences summer, and likewise, the opposite side of the Earth experiences winter. Does this help?
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
596396
if it stopped spinning then only one part of the world would ever get sun on half stuck in day one stuck in night and that would also probably cause severe weather changes
334932
The axis of the earth shifts seasonally.
364601
If that direction were opposite the direction of the \nearth's rotation, I think the answer is theoretically yes.\nIn reality there's not enough mass of people relative to the mass of the earth to have any effect.
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to imagine it, it would be very difficult. I suggest you experiment on it. Try using 3 ball, one for the sun, one for the earth, and another for the moon. Now do hte things you think. \nBut for me, the earth spins on its axis east to west and revolves the sun at east to west direction. EWhile the moon also revolves the earth at an east to west direction.
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.
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After the Earth formed and all the component asteroids and other proto-planetary debris coalesced the residual spin from the collisions left us spinning counter-clockwise.  Were there to be another collision, a series of collisions, or close interaction with some super-massive object (i.e. black hole, brown dwarf, etc.) with enough momentum or gravity to retard, stop or reverse our rotation, it could definitely do so.  Venus is an example of a planet in a retrograde rotation (probably because some massive impact reversed its spin), so it is definitely possible...hell, Uranus spins almost 90 degrees out of alignment with the orbital plane.  Most planets in our solar system spin in relatively the same direction, and that is likely to be the case in most systems in the universe, but it is by no means set in stone.
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The Earth rotates counter-clockwise when viewed from above the North Pole. \n\nThe rotation causes a centrifugal force, which causes the bulge of the equator, and a coriolis force, which is important in determining the flow of jet streams in the atmosphere and currents in the ocean.
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You would have to overcome the spinning motion of the atmosphere.  See my answer to your "if the world stopped spinning" question.  So yes, if you could reach about 900 mph going west, you would be counteracting the spinning of the Earth and eventually be somewhere else "without moving".  Now about the Earth's orbit around the sun...
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Well you seem  to have an inquisitive mind.\n\nsince the angular momentum of the earth is conserved, if all d cars drove towards east, this will prompt the earth to slow down its rotation speed eastwards, because there will be an extra component of the angular-momentum due to the cars.\nSo the rate of revolution of earth will decrease, which will lead to an increased daytime and night time.\n  But yeahh it will also lead to an immense traffic jam.\nDont even think about it.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, a tornado or twister twists counter-clockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere is clockwise. This is due to the Coriolis effect, caused when objects (in this case air) moves over the rotating earth. The air flows towards the twister, but curves to right (relative to the direction it is flowing). It is easier to visualize if you think about some air flowing straight north to a twister. Since the earth's surface is moving faster towards the east where it started, it carry on some of the momentum and curve to the east (right of the northerly direction it was flowing). This will tend to cause the air to miss the twister, but he extreme low pressure will allow the higher pressure around it to bend the flow towards the funnel, but the air will have the angular momentum of moving the right as it moves in, thus creating the counter-clockwise twist. In the Southern Hemisphere, a flow from the south towards a twister will be coming from a place closer to the earth's axis, and thus will be moving East more slowly than the land under the twister, so it fall behind (to the West) as it approaches, resulting, through the similar process as described above, in a clockwise twist.
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Okay, the obvious thing is that we would stop having the change of day and night. It would really screw up our weather. For instance, wind is created by the uneven heating of the earth. If one side were to get all the heat, that isn't quite uneven is it? Meaning no wind. meaning weather wouldn't travel.  I don't know if that means one spot wouldn't get rain. Since, the whole water cycle is still going. At least on one side of the planet. Mainly, one side of the planet would stop working. (unless tht one side is were the deepest part of the oceans are, which is were animals and plants living off the heat and gases being expelled from inside the earth. those animals would still be alive.) The other side, would become over-heated. \nHowever, gravity might still exist. I wasn't really aware until about 2 years ago, but gravity is still a theory. Why, well its b/c not all the scientists agree as to why gravity exists. one argument is that the mass of a planet bends the fabric of space which causes things to head to it. Kind of like setting a bowling ball on a bed. The reason why we're not all colliding with the sun is b/c we create our own dent. So, yes gravity might still exist, even if the planet stops spinning, b/c that migt not be the reason gravity exists.  if you really want to learn about the theory that i was talking about. and possibly get a clearer view, is by reading Steven Hawkings Universe Inside A Nutshell.
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Both. The rotation of the earth causes storms (and your the water in your toilet) to spin in one direction depending on what hemisphere of the earth you live on.  Wind can also make clouds if blown up a mountain face by forcing warmer air into colder mountain air and thus creating clouds. These clouds form on the windward side of the mountain, and are pushed over the top of the mountain (by the wind) and then disappear on the leeward side of the mountain when the cooler air reaches the lower elevation warmer air.
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the earth is spinning on a tilted axis (23.5 degrees), therefor sunlight is not equally dispersed, causing seasons... look up seasons on wikipedia and it will give an explanation i'm sure