North Pacific High
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The North Pacific High is a semi-permanent, subtropical anticyclone
located in the north east of the Pacific Ocean
north east of Hawaii
. It is strongest during the northern hemisphere summer, and shifts towards the equator during the winter when the Aleutian Low becomes more active.
Anticyclone
An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States' National Weather Service's glossary as "[a] large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere"...
located in the north east of the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
north east of Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. It is strongest during the northern hemisphere summer, and shifts towards the equator during the winter when the Aleutian Low becomes more active.