Behold the largest storm in our solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Great Red Spot is an anticyclone, a long ...

The largest storm in our solar system, an 8,700-mile-wide anticyclone on Jupiter long beloved by astronomers, may be slowly fizzling out. By Cody Cottier Apr 24, 2024 3:00 PM Feb 19, 2025 9:24 PM ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking. The biggest windstorm in the solar system has been slowly declining for decades, but some new research may explain why. There are fewer storms feeding this ...

A high pressure system is called an anticyclone. You can recognise an anticyclone on a weather chart as the isobars are above 1000mb and spread further apart. Anticyclones tend to last longer than ...

Freak low tides leave famous canals of Venice looking like muddy ditches thanks to anticyclone wind system above the city. Severe tides have caused disruption to daily life and killed countless fish; ...

IN his letter entitled “The Mechanics of the Glacial Anticyclone Illustrated, by Experiment” published in NATURE for July 22, Prof. Hobbs remarks: “In all my writings upon the glacial ...

Australia’s strongest high-pressure system in almost 60 years has delivered some of the iciest mornings on record to Victoria and Tasmania, while ushering Antarctic wind and rain to Sydney and ...

Weather experts attributed the unusual temperature spike to an anticyclone system along the western coast, bringing in warmer northwesterly winds.