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Knowledge points of cyclone and anticyclone

Cyclones lead to cloudy weather, while anticyclones lead to sunny weather. The reason is that high pressure flows to low pressure to form cyclone. The attached drawings will be helpful.

Explanation of cyclone: There are all kinds of eddies in the atmosphere, some rotate counterclockwise and some rotate clockwise. Among them, the larger horizontal vortex is called cyclone and anticyclone respectively, that is, low pressure and high pressure.

The center of a cyclone is a downward airflow, so it is clear and windless, and it is usually easy to form a rainy updraft around it, as is the familiar typhoon. The cyclone center is low pressure, and the airflow rotates and converges to rise.

The center of the anticyclone is the updraft, so it is rainy. The center of anticyclone is high pressure, and the rotational divergence of airflow decreases.

The direction of rotation depends on the northern and southern hemispheres.