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¿Cuáles son las características de una borrasca en el Hemisferio Norte?What characterises a depression in the Northern Hemisphere?

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Correct answer: a) Winds circulate anticlockwise and isobar values fall from the edge to the centre.

Why it is correct

In a low, pressure is lowest at the centre. In the north wind turns anticlockwise.

Why the others are not

  • b) That is a high.
  • c) It turns anticlockwise.
  • d) That is a high.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Northern low: anticlockwise.

Where this question comes from

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