Weather Systems

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• Anticyclone Article from Wikipedia on these weather systems with winds circling a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Cyclone Article from Wikipedia on these low pressure weather systems with inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
• Weather Facts: Anticyclone Brief description of these regions of high atmospheric pressure relative to the surrounding air.
• Fronts, Depressions and Anticyclones Article describing and explaining these atmospheric features and the kinds of weather associated with them.
• NWS JetStream: Air Masses Explains how air masses form, the principle classifications that influence the continental United States, and the formation of fronts between them.