Sentences with phrase «blocking area of high pressure»

«The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey is heavily influenced by blocking area of high pressure preventing the system from moving inland, concentrating the rainfall nearer the coast.

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.

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This is what happened to the 2007 hurricane season: There were constant, very large systems of hot, humid air, trying to cross the Atlantic, but in the middle of the summer they got swept back to Africa, and in October and November, they were blocked by a very strong area of high pressure and swept up to the North Pole by strong winds.

The pulse starts the hurricane for the sole purpose of providing a vertical transport for high pressure geographical areas of atmosphere blocked by surrounding high pressure areas blocking transport.