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Old 5th November 2014 | 19:42
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Whopity
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If you look carefully, they are not straight, but curved slightly in the opposite direction. They are part of a different air mass that is being overtaken by the cold air and forced up. Low pressure is more defined at the centre than high pressure giving rise to different curvature.

Frontal depressions are only one cause of low pressure; others include Polar air depressions, Tropical revolving storms and Oragraphic lows.
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