Hurricanes would be a thing of the past
“The devastating rotating nature of these tropical storms stems from Earth’s Coriolis force”
Every year hurricanes, formed over the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, typhoons, formed over the Northwest Pacific, and cyclones, formed over the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, cause unprecedented damage. In 2017 Hurricane Harvey alone caused $125 billion (£90 billion) worth of damage in the US.
The devastating rotating nature of these tropical storms stems from Earth’s Coriolis force, which causes those in the Northern Hemisphere to rotate clockwise and those in the Southern Hemisphere to rotate counterclockwise. However, on stationary, flat Earth, no Coriolis force would be generated. No Coriolis means no hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones. This is also why we don’t see these storms between five degrees north and south of the equator, as the Coriolis magnitude is zero at the equator.