Talk:Low-pressure area

Technology for weathering forecast
barometer: a tool used to measure air pressure

thermometer: an instrument used to measure temperature

rain gauge: a device for measuring rainfalls

anemometer: an instrument for measuring wind force —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.207.184 (talk) 02:26, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Seems to me that somewhere in all this learned explication about low-pressure etc, one could find information about in which direction the air circulates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.202.206 (talk) 01:59, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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Clarification needed
Not sure what this line means:

"Tropical cyclones can form during any month of the year globally, but can occur in either the northern or southern hemisphere during November."

Can form anywhere (either hemisphere), anytime (Jan through Nov) But Can form anywhere (either hemisphere), in November.

Do you mean, "Tropical cyclones can form during any month of the year globally, but more frequently in November" ? RainbowCanada (talk) 22:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

This reads like it was lifted from a textbook, not crafted for an Encyclopedia
Seriously, this is far too dense and complex for an Encyclopedia article. It reads like it was written by someone who has just graduated and wanted to show off but has zero understanding of how to make the subject accessible to the layman.

Can somebody who actually knows how to write re-draft this into something you don't have to be a climatologist to follow? LeapUK (talk) 18:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Unnecessary disambiguation?
I've reverted the moving of this article to Low-pressure area (meteorology). Is there some other kind of "low-pressure area" from which the meteorological kind needs to be disambiguated? If so, there's no sign of it on English Wikipedia. It sure looks to me like this article is the primary topic associated with this title. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:24, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * was the person who moved the page as he wanted to clarify that article covers the meteorological concept, not the general phenomenon as just about any fluid flow will feature low-pressure areas.Jason Rees (talk) 15:37, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, but there's no article in this encyclopedia about that, so there's no potential for confusion. Also, when I Google "low-pressure area", all hits in the first five pages (and probably more) of results are for the meteorological phenomenon; it seems clear to me that the meteorological low is the primary topic of this name. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:57, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bryan, you are right, I now think it was a mistake to do this. The google search is unequivocal, the article is already about what everybody refers to as "Low-pressure area". Thank you for bringing it up. The feeling that led me to rename the article, however, is still there: that this is 100% about meteorology, but this is never made explicit (or at least it not immediately). If I learned about pressure by reading pressure, before heading to the present article, then I would expect from the title and the lead that we are referring to areas of low pressure in general. Low pressure in a blood vessel, above a bird’s wing, or in the wake of a rain drop, for example. I think this would be fixed with a more explicit first sentence. For example: "In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations." Would that new lead sentence find consensus? -- Ariadacapo (talk) 11:51, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have gone ahead and edited the lead accordingly -- Ariadacapo (talk) 09:01, 30 January 2021 (UTC)