Why do hurricanes always turn north, away from the Equator?

[PeterDonis]

Where did I try to do that?

Pretty much everything you have posted in this thread, starting from the very thread title, has an underlying assumption that the hurricane is a single object with a single Coriolis force applied to it.

 

[physicsponderer]

Pretty much everything you have posted in this thread, starting from the very thread title, has an underlying assumption that the hurricane is a single object with a single Coriolis force applied to it.

Well, it has a centre of mass, right?

 

[PeterDonis]

it has a centre of mass, right?

Not really, since it has no definite boundary and air is continually being exchanged across any boundary you choose to draw around it.

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, it has a centre of mass, right?

A swarm of bees has a centre of mass too, but it's entirely useless for determining anything about how bee swarms move.