[Ratboy]

So as is often pointed out in ENaG, some things that exist on a moving earth do not prove it is moving since the same thing would happen if the earth stood still.  Like dropping a cobbler's hammer from a ship's crows nest and having it fall at the base. 

So I fail to see how winds at various stata prove the earth does not move.  If the earth cannot be moving constantly otherwise the air would match its speed and we would have no wind relative to us, how can there be wind on an earth that does not move?  Defeated by his own logic.  The existence of wind neither proves nor disproves a moving earth.
However counterclockwise hurricanes in the northern hemisphere and clockwise hurricanes in the south certainly support the idea of a globe more than they do a disk and even less so a stationary disk.

[6or1/2Dozen]

The FES Wiki credits the Coriolis effect and (possibly Prevailing Disc(us?) Winds) to:

The Wind Currents are put into gradual motion by the attraction of the Northern and Southern Celestial Systems, which are grinding against each other as gears at the equator line.

However, this entertainingly suggests all the prevailing winds should either blow either from N-S (or vise versa, it's not particularly detailed about how the attraction of the systems causes the wind to be put in motion) due to the attraction...

OR

The wind picks up motion from the gears, in which case:

All the winds north (hubwise?) should rotate in one direction, I'd assume counter-clockwise (to match celestial direction) centered on the north pole. All the wind south...

...I'm not 100% sure how the Southern Celestial System(s) work, because the Southern Pole stars are sort of everywhere south at the same time and that's never been well explained... ...I can't really even take a good guess at, but in any case it would probably be counter-rotating.

Near the Equator, the wind from something like that just doesn't seem like it would induce any local rotation to a hurricane or affect the trajectory of a sub-orbital ballistic rocket (not sure if those are even permissible on FE).

Neither of these models (unsurprisingly) seem to match actual observations that have been made since the 1400's concerning the prevailing global winds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winds_in_the_Age_of_Sail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_wind_patterns

[TomInAustin]

The FES Wiki credits the Coriolis effect and (possibly Prevailing Disc(us?) Winds) to:

The Wind Currents are put into gradual motion by the attraction of the Northern and Southern Celestial Systems, which are grinding against each other as gears at the equator line.

I forgot that one!   What would be fun would be to lie down at the equator and watch the 2 sets of stars rotating away in different directions.   Should be pretty easy to prove, right?

[Ratboy]

Thinking about the southern hemisphere (those people down there are nothing but trouble, they should just move above the equator), I was wondering if someone could tell me (so I do not have to hunt for the answer) how the magnetic field works on a flat earth.  Every magnet made has a south pole and a north pole.  Is the earth an exception?  If not, where is this south pole? 
Also when Libra is directly overhead of Concepcion, Paraguay, would it be part of the celestial gear set of the southern or northern system?  And when it is over Key West?

[JohnAdams1145]

Quoting from the wiki,

How is there a magnetic field? Magnets can't be unipolar
While it's true that unipolar magnets can't exist, this isn't a problem for the Flat Earth. This is because ring magnets, which are shaped like (you guessed it!) a flat disk, are capable of having radial magnetization. In a radial magnet, one magnetic pole is at the center and other other is at all points on the edge of the magnet. A magnet like this can be found in loudspeakers, and perfectly replicates what is found on the Earth.

The magnetic field lines would go outward from the center. Of course, this means that FE has a problem with how the magnetic field is produced; conventional theory dictates that it is produced by currents deep inside the Earth; unfortunately, with the radial magnet idea, it's not possible for the currents to create such a magnetization.

[Ratboy]

Hey thanks.  I am glad there is something that is physically possible on a flat earth.  Now if we could only get the compasses in the Southern Hemisphere to smarten up.