Not a myth. It is however a very weak effect, easily overcome by any number of other effects. The guys at Smarter Every Day and Veritasium have collaborated on a joint experiment, see it here.
It is just the same a myth that water goes down the drain in different directions according to hemisphere just because it requires such strongly controlled conditions (it's not something that one would observe in a normal tub or toilet, and therefore easily observable to everybody, yet that is the claim that is made) .
So why do hurricanes rotates counterclockwise and cyclones clockwise? The dividing line is the equator, not the path of the sun.
They say the exception proves the rule, don't they?
Map of the cumulative tracks of all tropical cyclones during the 1985–2005 time period. I think a very weak
typhoon, I guess it would be, started near India and wandered before wandering back and weakening, before fading out just south of the equator - no Coriolis to keep it spinning I guess!
A little telling that the band with virtually no tropical storms is centred on the
equator, not the sun's path as some flat earthers have claimed (not on this site as far as I know).
During summer in Australia we often have cyclones start well north of the sun's path near the Tropic of Capricorn.
Maybe Coriolis is real -
or do you think it might be those massive "celestial gears" up there?