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/ˌæntiˈsaɪˌkɫoʊn/
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NOUN
- (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern
How To Use anticyclone In A Sentence
- In our hemisphere, areas of high barometric pressure, anticyclones, create winds which circulate anticlockwise.
- Such wind systems indicate the regular passage of the anticyclones well to the south of the sub-continent.
- This view is supported by the frequency of south-easterly winds in the neighbourhood of the Antarctic Circle reported by all explorers, and the hypothesis of a south polar anticyclone or area of high pressure over the Antarctic continent has gained currency in advance of any observations to establish it. Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
- Summer weather was once determined by a phenomenon called the anticyclone of the Azores, a high-pressure zone over the Atlantic that brought Italy hot, dry periods relieved by summer storms, and then a definitive break in mid-August when a final storm broke up the anticyclone for good. Rome: The Marvels and the Menace
- The left and right cyclone and anticyclone rotation of the bow echo on its forward way decides the direction of developing or decreasing of the future strong convection weather.
- The advancing anticyclone is centred between 35 and 40 degrees South.
- Anticyclones cause cloudless blue skies and high temperatures in summer.
- Weakening and reduction in the regular size of the Polar anticyclone and its east-wind outflow should cause the temperate low pressure belt to find a zone of activity closer to the polar zones than at present.
- The low pressure area departed during Thursday as a new anticyclone reached and passed the Cape.
- In our hemisphere, areas of high barometric pressure, anticyclones, create winds which circulate anticlockwise.