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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 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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • Thumbnail for Wake low
    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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    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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  • 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 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak
    low-pressure area's southwestward movement through Central Texas. At around 12:30 p.m., the gravity wave, cold front, dry line, and low-pressure area...
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  • Thumbnail for December 2017 North American winter storm
    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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  • 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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  • 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 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 Base bleed
    increase range, typically by about 20–35%. It expels gas into the low pressure area behind the shell to reduce base drag (it does not produce thrust;...
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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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    Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.: 445  Gauge...
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    bombogenesis) is the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. The change in pressure needed to classify something as explosive cyclogenesis...
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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 2023 Atlantic hurricane season
    that a low pressure area could soon form at the back end of a trough of low pressure as it headed westward towards the Leeward Islands. The low formed...
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  • Thumbnail for Extratropical cyclone
    mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth...
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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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    pressure aloft which evacuates their outflow. In the absence of rotation, the wind tends to blow from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure...
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