High Pressure area help?

Question

The weather news said that there's a High pressure area in my country(Philippines). So, it's soooooo hot this past few weeks. It should be rainy season now, but very few rains are coming. What can you say about High pressure area and how long should I wait before it will gone??

Answer 1

A high pressure is an area where the air sinks and in the process, warms up by adiabatic effect (just like your bicycle pump gets how as you compress the air). This evaporates the moisture in the air and eventual clouds dissipate and give place to sunshine.

The only form of 'cloud' you can expect in a high pressure is fog since it may appear early in the morning, when the earth has radiated its heat in space during the night and an inversion forms. An inversion is when colder denser air is under warmer air. The air stand still and the cooled down surface condenses whatever moisture there is. This happens often over lakes, sea and forests as they retain much moisture from previous rains.

I have no idea when your high pressure will move giving place to a low bringing rain. Sometimes stationary high pressures can remain for weeks.

Best regards from Norway!

Answer 2

don't worry...the weather in our country will soon change...

i've been waiting for rain...it's awkward to have hot weather during the supposed to be rainy season..

Answer 3

Some high pressures can be stuborn, these are called blocking highs and can stay around for days, even weeks. The key is the jet stream located about 34,000 feet in the atmosphere. Once this so called ridge starts to break down, then and only then can this stuborn high pressure be defeated.

Answer 4

A high pressure system always bring dry weather, and Low pressure systems usually always bring clouds and rain.  You just have to wait until the high pressure moves out of the way before you see rain, which shouldn't be too much longer

Answer 5

unless  theres  a  low  pr  area  over  philpnes  or  near  its  sea  u  wont  have  rain