Originally Posted by
_Agrajag_
Not one of your studes, but Buys Ballot's law remains fixed in my brain from my ATC days in the early 1960's. No idea why it stuck. Must have been the fearsome instructor at Halton.
I've done a bit of sailing and flying in NZ. Even though I understood the reason, weather maps showing clockwise winds around lows just looked wrong!
There's a good example in NZ right now:
