Buys Ballot's law
noun
Buys Bal·lot's law
ˈbīsbəˈläts-,
ˈbȯis-
: a law in meteorology: when an observer's back is to the wind the lower barometric pressure is to the observer's left in the northern hemisphere and to the observer's right in the southern hemisphere owing to rotation of the earth
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