Elites Going to New Zealand Because Nature Helps Protect It From Nuclear Impact? Why the sudden rush to move to NZ? Is it because it's a UK commonwealth country, controlled by the crown... or is it because air currents from Northern & Southern Hemispheres don't cross the equator so a nuclear event in the north would not impact NZ? New-Zealand is 2,826.84 mi (4,549.36 km) south of the equator, so it is located in the southern hemisphere. Coriolis effect: There is plenty of cross-equatorial flow of air, but High and Low-pressure-systems (including tropical cyclones) do not cross the equator because of their reliance on the Coriolis Effect. For objects moving east-west in the northern hemisphere, the Coriolis deflection can be intuitively explained as follows. The speed of an object moving east at a given latitude is faster than the rotation of the earth at that latitude. This means the object will take a path of increasing radius due to centripetal acceleration. This deflects the object to the south. Similarly, an object moving west in the northern hemisphere is moving too slow relative to the rotation of the earth and takes a path of decreasing radius. This deflects the object to the north. Sources: https://www.quora.com/How-much-mixing-is-there-of-the-atmosphere-between-northern-and-southern-hemispheres * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force