Sentences with phrase «as areas of high pressure»

If the differential is large then the jet stream speeds up, and like a river flowing down a steep hill, it ploughs through any obstacles — such as areas of high pressure that might be in its way.

Sunshine and warm temperatures are likely on Friday as an area of high pressure continues to be in control.

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-- it will face continued margin pressures «due to higher labor content in certain areas of manufacturing where we have temporarily dialed back automation, as well as higher material costs from recently imposed tariffs, commodity price increases and a weaker US dollar.»

It's thought that the high pressure observed in tumors is a result of these abnormal blood vessels, which leak fluid and proteins into the area between tumor cells, known as the interstitial space.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

This disease can lead to high cholesterol and blood pressure, an increase in free radicals that can damage DNA, and promotes fat buildup in other areas of the body as well.

also known as an anticyclone - an area of high pressure with a system of winds rotating outwards.

As the winds travel from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure, a persistent onshore flow develops over large landmasses in the lower troposphere.

What counts in producing the greenhouse effect on Venus are the differences to the Earth, such as the lack of oceans on Venus (Oceans cover 71 % of Earth's surface area), and the much higher total atmospheric pressure.

As the air gets hotter, thunderstorms are more likely to develop in the area, the energy of which fluctuates the jet stream and creates a high - low or «dipole,» pressure pattern.

Conversely volumes of cooled air form areas of high pressure because as their individual molecules are condensing there are more of them in the same room their weight is more concentrated forming areas of high pressure, weighing down on us more heavily because there are more of them.

This gives rise to moisture flow by air movement and vapor diffusion from the exterior to the interior cooled area as a result of a higher outdoor vapor pressure than indoor vapor pressure during the cooling periods.

Charts showing isobars are useful because they identify features such as anticyclones (areas of high pressure), depressions (areas of low pressure), troughs and ridges which are associated with particular kinds of weather.

Just as a jet stream in the atmosphere separates zones of higher and lower air pressure, the fast - moving Gulf Stream separates areas of differing MSL as it runs up the Atlantic coast.

In the Atlantic, storms often form in the Caribbean or the central Atlantic and move west, around the periphery of a broad area of High pressure that typically sets up shop each summer near Bermuda — known as the «Bermuda High.»

Elsner said the springtime NAO can help influence the location of the all - important High pressure area in the Atlantic Ocean, displacing it further southwest, which in turn may steer hurricanes closer to the U.S. coastline, as occurred in 2004 and 2005.

These same people, on the other hand, would dismiss the 2003 heatwave across western Europe (with well - publicised increases in the numbers of elderly people dying in France) as extreme weather caused by a blocked area of high pressure.