How do you tell if a ceiling fan is turning clockwise?
You would picture a clock with its face toward the floor. Then if you have the fan running in its slowest mode, you can watch the fan blades and see if they turn clockwise (the same direction the hands of a clock turn) or counterclockwise (the opposite direction the hands of a clock turn). It would have to be considered ‘face-down’ because the best way to tell if something is turning in a certain direction is to look at it head-on. It wouldn’t be ‘head-on’ if you had to consider it as facing the ceiling.
