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High Pressure Systems

Pressure is caused by the weight of the air pushing down.

High pressure has more weight.

Air is pushed from high pressure to low pressure.

This is the wind.

Think of high pressure pressing down.

The earth spins.

This makes the wind flow in circles.

In the southern hemisphere, wind rotates anticlockwise around high pressure systems.

High pressure system:
wind rotates anitclockwise

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