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High pressure center: On a weather map, an area of a local maximum of air pressure; often associated with fair weather. When viewed from above, winds spiral out of a high pressure center in a clockwise sense.
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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.
