However, later that day, the high pressure ridge weakened, causing Hiki to turned westward and pass south of French Frigate Shoals and Midway Island.
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During summer a high-pressure ridge lies to the south, causing persistent winds from the southeast or southwest at speeds exceeding almost half the time.
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Contributing to the declining wheat prices were weather maps this morning that showed a high-pressure ridge developing over the southern and western Plains states.
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If this high-pressure ridge does weaken, the storm could move north, making it less of a threat to the Miami-Dade area-- but more worrisome elsewhere.
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Chinese scientists theorize that the ozone valley over Tibet results from a high pressure ridge that sits above the plateau during the warmer summer months.
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Contributing to the declining wheat prices were weather maps this morning that showed a high-pressure ridge developing over the south and western plains wheat states.
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There's little hope for relief as a high-pressure ridge continues to hang around the Southwest, bouncing La Nina storms from the Pacific Ocean to the north.
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The storm is being guided by a high pressure ridge over Florida and the eastern Atlantic Ocean, steering Debby on its west-northwest path under the ridge.
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"The issue right now is there's a strong high pressure ridge north of Jeanne, " he said . " That's what's steering it to the west.
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The quicker it advances, the more likely the high-pressure ridge won't have a chance to weaken or migrate, thus keeping the storm on its west-northwest track.
