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Hi Clyve,
I was looking at that myself earlier today and noticed it had been dawdling along down there over the last week. There's a whole 'queue' of polar front depressions lined up but this high has decided to mount a left turn detour sign (gosh the Labor Party's left wing must be in the ascendancy!). I thought I also noticed a suspiciously similar but much less intrusive feature at similar latitudes south of the African continent.
This seems to me to be not unusual for June, to have the polar high bulging north in our longitudes. I often wonder if it has to do with the winter solstice...the air down there is so cold it starts to bubble north, more or less. Hi all.
----- Original Message -----
From: Clyve Herbert
To: austpacwx@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:31 PM
Subject: [austpacwx] Unusual high...
For those interested in synoptic weather just noticed a big high well south of New Zealand near the Antarctic coast between 160 and 170 east with a central pressure of 1035hpa, I would suggest that's a near record for that location bearing in mind mean pressure in that area are closer to or less than 1000hpa this time of the year, also suspect some very cold surface air in the vicinity of that big high. Clyve H