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Circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern
Answer for the clue "Circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern ", 11 letters:
anticyclone
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Word definitions for anticyclone in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Only on the very last day did an anticyclone grace our shores.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Storm \Storm\, n. [AS. storm; akin to D. storm, G. sturm, Icel. stormr; and perhaps to Gr. ? assault, onset, Skr. s? to flow, to hasten, or perhaps to L. sternere to strew, prostrate (cf. Stratum ). [root]166.] A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An anticyclone (that is, opposite to a cyclone ) is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States National Weather Service 's glossary as "a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1863, coined by Francis Galton (1822-1911), English polymath, explorer, and meteorologist, from anti- + cyclone . Related: Anticyclonic .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern [ant: cyclone ]
Usage examples of anticyclone.
Can feel the great anticyclone the icecap inland like a presence, a ghostly conjurer drawing gales out of the Arctic waters.
But an anticyclone in the springtime is the opening of a door into paradise.
No, the anticyclone from the south, that almost brought with it the scent of thyme and mimosa from Corsica.
But now and again the anticyclone wanders distracted off its path, the rain buckets down upon everything south of the Loire, and the ten people left behind in Oslo take their shirts off and wiggle their toes, while neither love nor money can buy you a pair of gumboots in Nice.
This is caused by the fact that the ascending air, having attained a height above the earth, settles down behind the storm, forming an anticyclone or mass of dry air, which presses against the retreating side of the great whirlwind.
A score of yachts lies moored to a wooden jetty, and one or two owners have been stirred by the sunlight of a spring anticyclone, into taking the tarpaulins off cabin roofs and putting the cushions out to air.
Towards the end of June the rainfall, which had been way above average for eight weeks, eased off and a series of anticyclones began to establish themselves across the northern hemisphere.
Towards the end of June the rainfall, which had been way above average for eight weeks, eased off and a series of anticyclones began to establish themselves across the northern hemisphere.
The huge, wrinkled-blue belly of the Indian Ocean dominated the planet, with the spiral of a big swirling anticyclone painted across it.