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Re:What Saved the ‘Miracle House’ in Lahaina? by scheme271 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:53PM (#37195959)
Coriolis effect is common in large (~10s of km) systems but I'm not sure the effect is strong enough to affect something as turbulent as air rising from a fire. At small sizes, like water in a toilet, it's not large enough to determine which direction the water swirls.
Re:What Saved the ‘Miracle House’ in Lahaina? by labster on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:02AM (#37196280)
I hear you but some of the big fire driven storms really do get up to the mid-range of mesoscale, where Coriolis force starts to play a role. It obviously won’t have the same role as synoptic phenomena, but I suspect most fire whirls have cyclonic motion, unless local orography really favors anticyclonic flow.