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n. - (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center. An area of high air pressure that causes calm weather in the place it is moving over.

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  • Winter anticyclones bring cold, clear, sunny, settled weather due to: Cold, sunny days with few clouds.
  • And they must be strong trees, these anticyclone curtains.
  • The anticyclone eferencesweather dominates most of the year.
  • The northern anticyclone, I think, is going to be building westward.
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