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Chelseaamend

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Compare/contrast the features of the midlatitude cyclone with the tropical cyclone.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Define midlatitude anticyclone and explain the weather associated with it.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Midlatitude cyclone: Energy from jet stream, west-to-east, fronts, conveyor belt, low pressure center, strengthens with height. Tropical cyclone: Energy from warm seawater, east-to-west, not fronts, maritime Tropical air, weakens with height.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A high-pressure disturbance of the average flow of the surface westerlies and is so large that it takes more than a day to pass over a location. It is associated with sunny, dry weather.


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