Make the north hemisphere great again!

They could add 2 more if they updated the map into this year.

Well that is super interesting. Was wondering if that was a visual artifact.

Or to Germany

Yeah they shouldn't have any color like that in Asia. They only get Typhoons.

Yes, you will be safe from hurricanes while you are baked alive by global warming.

Well, unfortunately it'll become a blistering hellscape.

Well, it might fuck up the wind currents and allow even bigger storms that could cross the equator

At least until the magnetic poles flip and then all hell breaks loose (again).

I believe it’s because currents of air rotate in the opposite direction. So to cross the equator the air would have to pass a boundary of global air currents which are going counter to the hurricane’s motion. See this picture for a reference.

Coriolis effect. Things spin opposite direction across the equator due to how the earth spins.

It’s virtually impossible for a hurricane to cross the equator.

Because of things like Coriolis effect and convective currents, there just aren't winds that blow across the equator, not at the scale that would blow a hurricane from one hemisphere to the other anyway.

Winds tend to blow along and away from the equator, not across it.

For ELI5, think of it this way. The earth is spinning, and at the equator it's moving really fast, like 900 mph. At the north pole, the earth isn't moving at all, so in the northern hemisphere, you can picture all land to the north of you as moving slower than you, and land to the south as moving faster than you. If you run south, it would spin you because it's moving 'sideways' faster than you are. Cross the equator and suddenly it gets slower as you run south, literally putting the brakes on your spin.

Nah, dude. If you want to avoid hurricanes, you gotta go to Antarctica. Just look at the map, it's just got cool blue arrows.

I recommend Uruguay, specifically. That little country is miles ahead of the rest of the continent in several aspects.

Or, if you are American and wealthy enough to own a house (in the USA), you're likely wealthy enough to buy a good house in Brazil and retire with enough passive income to ignore all of this country's problems.

The equator doesn't have strong wind though? And what does that map of ocean currents have to do with that?

What's the farthest we can transport electricity? Seems like that may be pushing the boundary a bit. I wonder if it would be possible to have a world-wide electricity grid.