Ceiling fans are not a thing here. The few weeks we have warm weather people tend to use the floor variants (and the stores are always sold out at that time of year) 
Huh. Thatās backwards from what I would have expected.
I guess it all depends on which direction the wings are angled.
I thought the same too and had to look it up to prove myself wrong.
I understood it as itās more about the outer flow and we think about it from the inner flow.
Or just set the fan to HIGH 
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Makes sense to me; when sucking up, warm air will be forced to the outer walls, thus warming up the cold air around the outer walls (cold air tends to flow down, as it is heavier than warm air).
During summer, reverse the flow, so cooler air from the outer walls will be dispersed in the room 
Yeah but Forward is counter clockwise and Reverse is clockwise. The question I pondered when I figured out I was wrong was āwhy didnāt they just angle the blades the other way?ā Everything would have actually made senseā¦
Wouldnāt CW/CCW just depend on the manufacturer 
What everyone else said. 
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Back in the dark ages before reversible fans, thatās exactly what you had to do. Get up on a ladder and reverse the blades manually. Oh how I hated winter coming when I had to do that in every room.
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Easier to flip the live and neutral wires. AC works that way, doesnāt it?
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Hahaha Iām sure that would be just fine. I mean, what could go wrong?
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I thought it depends on what hemisphere youāre atā¦ like how water turns the other way around in the sink in Australia as opposed to European sinks 
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For which way the fan has to spin for sure.
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I suspect you can blame the engineers for this (Iāll go blame the clockmakers though). Counterclockwise rotation is -usually- defined as the positive rotation direction in rotational mechanical systems.
Anyhow Iāll go back to lurking, Iāve posted more than Iām used to already today
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That is a mythā¦it turns either way
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Myths usually have a basis in truth.
Especially the ones about Dragons.
Did you know Raccoons are descendants of Dragons?
I read that somewhere too.
I think of it as looking in the same direction as the fan (from the ceiling) ā not facing it, in which case itās mirrored.
In all seriousness, if you are sitting in the middle of the floor under a ceiling fan, if itās blowing on you (down) it has the added cooling affect of evaporation, so that is summer.
If itās blowing up you donāt have the evaporation effect because the most you feel is a draft and the flow is more general and indirect. The outflow is right into the ceiling and doesnāt pick up much speed. The reason for the fan in that case is pulling cooler air up to displace the hot air at the ceiling.
And if you donāt agree with my logic, there are further details in my tagline.
TIL that ceiling fans and the science behind them would be this big of a catalyst to a discussion.
All I know is I have stared at the direction of my ceiling fan fins way more than I should since this conversation started 
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