Buys Ballot's law (English, name)
expansion: Buys Ballot's law
Senses:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rule stating that, in the Northern Hemisphere, if a person stands with their back to the wind, the atmospheric pressure is low to the left and high to the right (because wind travels counterclockwise around low-pressure zones in the Northern Hemisphere).
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