This project aims at understanding the movement and intensity variations of single vortices, which we produce in a novel experimental set up based on heating a half soap bubble at its equator and cooling it at the pole. The displacement of these votices turns out to share similarities with that of hurricanes at large scales. This similarity and the properties of the environment of these vortices will be studied in detail. This study should allow us to propose a new scheme for prediciting hurricane corridors and link variations in their inetnsity to variations in their position. The study will first focus on a measurement of the rotation rate of these vortices and its correlations to variations in vortex position. At the same time numerical simulations of a situation similar to the experiments will be carried out by studying numerically thermal convection on a half sphere. In a second phase, the experimental set up will be subjected to rotation so as the effects of a Coriolis force can be introduced and their influence on the vortex trajectory and intensity studied systematically. In parallel, we will carry out a detailed study of the thermal convection in this half bubble both experimentally and numerically so as the environment in which the vortices live and move can be fully characterized. Much of this study will focus on the properties of turbulent convection in this novel setting without walls. We hope to bring new insights into the statistics of the temperature field for example and for which few if any measurements exist for its spatial fluctuations.