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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.

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What area of pressure does the wind flow clockwise around?

Low pressure systems. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds flow counterclockwise around low pressure systems, while in the Southern Hemisphere, winds flow clockwise around low pressure systems.


Whats the wind pattern around a high pressure area?

The wind pattern around a high pressure area is clockwise (in the northern hemisphere). It is said to resemble a spinning disk, as opposed to a spinning sphere.


In northern hemisphere a high pressure area rotates clockwise or counter clockwise?

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Winds are generated when air flows from a high pressure area into a what?

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The Northern Hemisphere a high pressure area rotates .?

clockwise


In the Northern Hemisphere a high pressure area rotates .?

clockwise


Winds circulate around an area of high pressure?

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Does Wind blow out of low pressure areas?

Wind flows Cyclonically (counterclockwise) into a low pressure system. (Winds flow clockwise out of a high pressure system)... in the Northern Hemisphere. A severe low in the northern hemisphere produces winds that are called a Hurricane (USA) or Typhoon (Japan/coast of China).Winds flow clockwise around a low pressure area in the southern hemisphere. A severe low in the northern hemisphere produces winds that are called a Cyclone.


What fluids flow?

a fluid naturally flows from an area of the high pressure to an are of low pressure.


After high pressure areas are created around the poles cold polar air flows toward?

After high-pressure areas are formed around the poles, cold polar air flows towards lower pressure regions. This movement of air is known as advection, and it helps to balance out the pressure differences between the poles and lower latitudes.


Which way does a fluid flow in places where pressure is different?

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What direction do the winds blow out of an area of high pressure in the northern hemisphere?

CLOCKWISE!!