So, if our planet didn’t rotate you think we’d still have ‘prevailing winds’ or wind of any sort? How would that work then? Would it come in as a draught through the hole in our ozone layer, or am I missing something? 
Well, this completely messes up the life long conection I thought I had with China.
OT: Howland Island looks like a paramecium.
Love it! 
Wild. Pretty cool how the entirety of the U.S. is in the Indian Ocean. I’ll be busting this fact nugget out at the next party.
I think you’re onto something. And think. What was before modern continents? Pangaea. And what was it antipodal to? A huge frikkin ocean.
Where’s the tinfoil hat smiley when you need it?!
If you want the serious answer, the temperature-pressure difference between latitudes would be the major driver. So prevailing winds would orient north-south rather than east-west as they do now.
Actually, thinking about this it’s completely wrong.
If the Earth didn’t rotate the side closest to the sun would be much hotter than the dark side. That means the whole sunny side will be a massive low pressure system and the prevailing winds will be towards the dark side. So if we call the longitude directly “under” the sun our counter-equator the prevailing winds will blow from slightly west of that point, with some small amount of north-south motion imparted from the effect mentioned in the previous post.
Huh. Right in the middle of the Indian ocean, there’s a little tiny thing marked “French Southern and Antarctic Lands”. And on the other side of the globe… is a lake in Alberta. 