Posts Tagged anticyclone
- The Big Chill - August 14th, 2011 , Written By: Peter Kreft | 8 Comments
- The Structure of Highs - November 2nd, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | No Comments
- How Lows and Highs move - August 24th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | 1 Comment
2:30pm Sunday 14 August 2011 It’s early days in a weather event which is likely to be memorable for its coldness. Below is a satellite image for midday Sunday. The wind flow over New Zealand is generally from the southwest; the coldest showery air has made its way onto Fiordland, Southland, Otago and south Canterbury. [...]
After writing two blog posts about lows or depressions, I thought it would be a good idea to also write something about highs or anticyclones. After all, one is just the opposite of the other, isn’t it?? Well, in some ways yes, but there are some important differences too. If you have a barometer you’re probably [...]
In my blog post about winds aloft there is a loop of satellite images for a week in winter 2008. It shows that the big cloud features in the mid-latitudes typically travel from west to east. In other words, the features you see on weather maps affecting New Zealand have usually started out roughly in the area of southern Australia. There are exceptions to [...]