March Anticyclone

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March Anticyclone

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Looks like this anticyclone is set to hang around for possibly towards the end of the month.
Currently it is a strong one at 1038hPa with jet streams whizzing around the top of it and under this, "ridge of High Pressure" or "High" :mrgreen:
Hope it produces nice autumnal days instead of anticyclonic gloom, now that at 10.37pm on Saturday evening, we pass the Mabon, the autumnal equinox and spend the next 6 months when the sun shines more so in the northern hemisphere than our southern hemisphere.
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Re: March Anticyclone

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Certainly magnificent so far. I recall last year posting about the subcanopy in bush areas struggling and wilting due to prolonged drought.

On my hills runs this week I have observed this year is even worse. Wilting trees literally dying off
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Re: March Anticyclone

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Starting to weaken a bit now but leaving an impression on the eastern coast of Australia as a moist easterly flow moves onto the area from the flow over the top of it.
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