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What is the proper name for a high pressure system that spins clockwise?
A high-pressure system that spins clockwise is called an anticyclone. They spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
Do high pressure systems move clockwise or counterclockwise?
In the northern hemisphere wind blow around high-pressure systems in a clockwise direction. In the southern hemisphere, the wind blow is in the opposite (anticlockwise) direction.
Which direction does air flow in high pressure?
High pressure air travels "downwards and clockwise"
Are winds clockwise in high pressure?
Winds rotate clockwise about a high pressure system if it is in the northern hemisphere. If the system is in the southern nehmisphere the winds will rotate counterclockwise.
Which Wind direction in a high pressure system in the southern hemisphere?
High pressure systems turn anti clockwise in the southern hemisphere and clockwise in the northern hemisphere
Which way does a high pressure rotate?
High air pressure systems spin clockwise.
In the northern hemisphere a high pressure rotates?
clockwise
Explain how air moves differently in low-pressure and high-pressure systems?
a high pressure system moves clockwise, while a low one moves counter clockwise. high pressure systems move down and out, and low pressure systems move in and up.
How air moves differently in low- and high-pressure system?
a high pressure system moves clockwise, while a low one moves counter clockwise. high pressure systems move down and out, and low pressure systems move in and up.
How air moves differently in low and high pressure systems?
a high pressure system moves clockwise, while a low one moves counter clockwise. high pressure systems move down and out, and low pressure systems move in and up.
What happens when a high pressure system moves in where a low pressure system already is?
Typically the area between the systems gets high winds because of the differences in circulation such as a high pressure spins clockwise and low pressure system spins counter clockwise.
The wind flows clockwise around an area of pressure?
Wind flows clockwise around high pressure in the northern hemisphere. If you are in the southern hemisphere, it is clockwise around low pressure. The reason for the difference is the Coriolis Force.
