In what direction do high and low pressure areas travel in the u.s?

Question

Also what is the cause of high and low pressure areas?

Answer 1

Hi. Both tend to travel west to east and have a CW rotation around a high and CCW around a low.

Answer 2

There is really no certain direction that low and high pressures travel. They usually travel from west to east but that is not everytime. That can move in any direction. Water is the cause of low pressure development. They usually develop in the pacific ocean, then move across the U.S.

Answer 3

The high and low pressure systems generally move from west to east due to the steering winds aloft.
High pressure systems like to lay over cool surfaces and low pressure systems like to form over warm surfaces. You often get lows developing over land during a hot summer day and they are called heat lows.
However a line of high pressure, named the subtropical ridge, is formed by a larger scale circulation called the Hadley Circulation. The high pressure is formed by areas of subsidence (air sinking). The sub tropical ridge moves towards the equator during winter and towards the pole during the summer.

Answer 4

The US is in the westerly belt of winds between 30 and 60 north latititude so all our weather systems including high pressure centers migrate eastward under the steering of the upper level westerlies.

Answer 5

low is clockwise and high is counterclockwise