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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The coriolis effect is a fictitious force, it's just an artifact of not doing measurements in an inertial reference frame.

Edit: If I were to attribute it to anything, I'd attribute it to the actual rotation of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

As the highs lows are part of the earth's atmosphere and thus trapped in a non-inertial frame of reference, they indeed experience the fictitious forces, such as the Coriolis and the centrifugal force.