High- and Low-Pressure Zones, January
WorldPhysical EnvironmentLocations of high- and low-atmospheric pressure at mean sea level during January.
natureA map illustrates high- and low-pressure zones worldwide for January, with high-pressure zones marked in red and low-pressure zones in blue.
High-Pressure Zones are found in Western North America (1,022 millibars), Northwest Africa (1,024 millibars), North-central Asia (1,044 millibars), Southeast Pacific (1,018 millibars), South Atlantic (1,022 millibars), South Indian Ocean (1,022 millibars) Low-Pressure Zones are found in North Pacific near the Aleutian Islands (984 millibars), North Atlantic near Greenland and Iceland (992 millibars), along the equator in the Central Pacific Ocean, Central Africa, and Western Pacific Ocean, and around the coasts of Antarctica (three lows at 980 millibars).
High | Class | Rank | Deaths per 100,000 people | Class | Rank | Percent households with TV | Atlantic Ocean Seaboard | Baja California | California | Churchill | Columbia and Northwestern United States | Fraser | Great Basin | Gulf Coast | Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Coast | Hudson Bay Coast | Mackenzie | Mexico, Northwest Coast | Mississippi - Missouri | North America, Colorado | Northwest Territories | Pacific and Arctic Coast | Río Grande - Bravo | Saskatchewan - Nelson | St John | St Lawrence | United States, North Atlantic Coast | |
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| 1 | 26.8% | 0.273% | 42.5% | 4.84% | 23.3% | 22.5% | 22.1% | 40.8% | 69.5% | 22.9% | 43.3% | 5.78% | 45.4% | 30.9% | 63.9% | 49.2% | 24.7% | 28.5% | 2.90% | 27.2% | 47.9% | |||||||