Trough

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On a weather chart, a narrow, elongated area of relatively low pressure.

Trough In meteorology, an elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure; the opposite of a ridge.

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An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, usually not associated with a closed circulation, and thus used to distinguish from a closed low. The opposite of ridge.

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