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¿Cuál es el movimiento general del viento en una borrasca en el hemisferio norte?What is the general wind motion in a northern-hemisphere depression?

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Correct answer: a) Anticlockwise near the surface, converging on the centre and rising aloft.

Why it is correct

In a northern low wind turns anticlockwise, flows in to the centre and rises. Hence cloud and rain.

Why the others are not

  • b) Anticlockwise.
  • c) It converges.
  • d) It rises.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Northern low: anticlockwise, in and up.

Where this question comes from

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