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pressure center

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noun

Meteorology.
  1. the central point of an atmospheric high or low.


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“But it will matter where that high pressure center sets up, how strong, and if it persists.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2020

The atmospheric pattern that sent the Jet Stream south is colloquially known as a “blocking high”—a big pressure center stuck over the very northern Atlantic Ocean and southern Arctic Ocean.

From Time ● Jul. 9, 2013

The dry spells suffered by the U.S. plains states are blamed on blocking by a high pressure center over the upper Midwest.

From Time Magazine Archive

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