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If the wind is blowing from north to south, where are the areas of high and low pressure?

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Wind is caused by differences in the atmospheric pressure. When a difference in atmospheric pressure exists, air moves from the higher to the lower pressure area, resulting in winds of various speeds.

Our Earth is a rotating planet. Fast moving air is deflected by the Coriolis effect, except exactly on the equator. This defines the direction of cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons rotation. The wind flow around a large cyclone is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Wind forms when the sun heats one part of the atmosphere differently than another part. This causes expansion of warmer air, making less pressure where it is warm than where it is cooler. Air always moves from high pressure to lower pressure, and this movement of air is wind.

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The high is west of you, and the low is east of you. (If you're in the northern Hemisphere.)

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