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Like Low pressure area, is High pressure also moving?? or it is steady on one place???

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Like Low pressure area, is High pressure also moving?? or it is steady on one place???

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  1. All weather systems generally move with respect to the motion resulting from the Hadley cell circulation.

    To answer your question, yes, in general, high pressure is always on the move at the surface.  However, there are instances in which stagnant conditions can develop and result in high pressure staying in one place for days to weeks at a time.  This happens from time to time in the southeast U.S. in the summer... and is an extension of the Bermuda High, which doesn't stay exactly in one place, but does fluxuate in the same general location in the central/west N. Atlantic.  

    When high pressure remains fixed in a place at mid levels of the atmosphere, it is referred to as a blocking high.  There are a couple of types of blocking highs including Omega blocks and Rex blocks. This will create a pattern of similar weather from day to day across the region of stalled high pressure


  2. Low and High Pressure move around but there are semi- permanent areas of high pressure,  like the Bermuda High..

  3. Pretty much the whole atmosphere is moving all the time, so high pressure areas will move just as much as low pressure areas.

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