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    a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations. Low-pressure areas are...
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    A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the...
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  • atmosphere (pressure, density, temperature, etc.) with altitude, at middle latitudes. Low-pressure area – Area with air pressures lower than adjacent areas Meteorology –...
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    heating or radiationized cooling an area receives. Pressure systems cause weather to be experienced locally. Low-pressure systems are associated with clouds...
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  • Look up low in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Low or LOW or lows, may refer to: Low (surname), listing people surnamed Low Low, Quebec, Canada Low, Utah...
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    relatively low atmospheric pressure without a closed isobaric contour that would define it as a low pressure area. Since low pressure implies a low height...
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    wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties of such lamps exist: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps are highly efficient electrical light sources...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
    cyclonic circulation, a low-pressure area formed on 27 January. It would significantly concentrate, becoming a well-marked low-pressure area on 29 January. The...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023 Pacific typhoon season
    50,000 people. A month later on April 7, the JMA began tracking a low-pressure area located in the Philippines Sea. On the same day the JMA classified...
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    where mesoscale low-pressure areas are present. Some bow echoes can grow to become derechos as they move swiftly across a large area. On the back edge...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyclone Midhili
    2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Midhili originated from a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological...
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  • Thumbnail for Thermal low
    Thermal lows, or heat lows, are non-frontal low-pressure areas that occur over the continents in the subtropics during the warm season, as the result of...
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    kloʊn/) is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the...
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  • Thumbnail for 2024 Pacific typhoon season
    Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) upgraded the system from a low-pressure area into a depression, assigning it the local name Aghon. At 18:00 UTC...
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  • Thumbnail for Coriolis force
    zero at the equator. Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would in a non-rotating system, winds and currents...
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    word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which, from an observer looking down toward the...
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  • Thumbnail for Synoptic scale meteorology
    mid-latitude depressions (e.g. extratropical cyclones). Most high- and low-pressure areas seen on weather maps (such as surface weather analyses) are synoptic-scale...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
    tropical weather outlook concerning a low-pressure area centered roughly 300 mi (485 km) north of Bermuda. Despite the low exhibiting thunderstorm activity...
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  • Thumbnail for Mesoscale convective system
    mature squall lines, a wake low can form, which is a mesoscale low-pressure area that forms behind the mesoscale high-pressure system normally present under...
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    A wake low, or wake depression, is a mesoscale low-pressure area which trails the mesoscale high following a squall line. Due to the subsiding warm air...
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  • Thumbnail for 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
    which later intensified into a low pressure area on midday (17:30 IST) of February 28, as the disturbance formed a low-level circulation, according to...
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    gaining the international name Chaba. Around the same time, a new Low Pressure Area (LPA) east of Northern Luzon was given a Tropical Cyclone Formation...
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  • Thumbnail for Tropical Storm Hernan (2020)
    hurricane season. The system developed from a low-pressure area to the southwest of Mexico on August 26, as a low-end tropical storm. Moving generally northward...
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    across portions of Europe in December 2017. First developing as a low-pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm system impacted the Southern United...
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    each time there is an anticyclone, or area of high pressure, in the Bay of Biscay, and an area of low pressure around the Gulf of Genoa. When this happens...
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    context of larger weather systems, the most important of which is the low-pressure area, which typically incorporate warm and cold fronts as part of their...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyclone Hamoon
    the 2023 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Hamoon formed from a low-pressure area over the west-central Bay of Bengal on 21 October 2023. It suddenly...
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  • Thumbnail for 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
    805 fatalities, mostly due to the aforementioned Bhola cyclone. A low-pressure area that developed over the southern Andaman Sea late in April moved north...
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  • Thumbnail for South Atlantic tropical cyclone
    within its area of responsibility, to the west of 20°W, when they have sustained wind speeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph). A low-pressure area formed over...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyclogenesis
    development or strengthening of cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere (a low-pressure area). Cyclogenesis is an umbrella term for at least three different processes...
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