Anticyclone

True colour satellite eemage o an unuisual anticyclone aff soothren Australie in the Soothren Hemisphere, on September 8, 2012, shawin a coonter-clockwise rotation aroond an oval aurie o clear skies.

An anticyclone (that is, opposite tae a cyclone) is a wather phenomenon defined bi the Unitit States National Weather Service's glossary as "a lairge-scale circulation o winds aroond a central region o heich atmospheric pressur, clockwise in the Northren Hemisphere, coonterclockwise in the Southren Hemisphere".