Anticyclones that look and act like snails

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Anticyclones that look and act like snails

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The anticyclone currently in the "bight" looks like a snail with the centre (shell) etc over the bight and the head in the tasman(the awful Southwesterly airflow part of the high) and also acts like a snail as its slowness to arrive over the tasman and to give us it looks like a week of boring cold SW like last Easter. :(
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Yes, that high looks firmly anchored to the south of Australia. Atleast it is sending a ridge our way. Looks to be a cold wet southerly moving up the east of the country now in advance of that ridge. 11C at Christchurch this afternoon.
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Wellington(airport) this eveing is now averaging 36knots gusting 45kts.
Temperature 13C with rain. Lovely stuff.
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