Most of us flip the switch on our ceiling fans without a second thought. It spins, it cools, it does the job. Simple enough, ...

Over the last few years, people across the U.S. have dealt with record-breaking summer temperatures. That includes a June 2021 heat wave in which parts of the Pacific Northwest experienced their ...

The Sun's counterclockwise rotation (as viewed from its north pole) originates from the initial spin of the solar nebula, a remnant of the larger cloud from which it formed. The direction of this spin ...

If you aren't getting year-round use out of your standard ceiling fan, you're missing out on some serious heating bill savings. The fact is, indoor ceiling fans aren’t just for that wind chill effect ...

Almost 90% of American households use air conditioning, and 66% of that is central AC. The regions with the most AC use are the Midwest and South, according to the U.S. Energy Information ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...

If you’ve ever heard (or witnessed yourself!) that hurricanes spin clockwise in one part of the world and counterclockwise in another, you’re not imagining things. It’s a real phenomenon, and it all ...

In probably 95 percent of tornado occurrences the wind circulation is counterclockwise, but not all of the time. In the majority of tornadoes, air spirals into a tornado in a large counterclockwise ...

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