Kalahari High

The Kalahari High is a semi-permanent anticyclone situated over the interior of southern Africa. It is part of the subtropical ridge system and the reason the Kalahari is a desert.^[1]^[2] It is the descending limb of a Hadley cell.^[3]

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Cyclones and anticyclones of the world (Centers of action)

Types	Extratropical Mesocyclone/Anticyclonic storm Polar Subtropical cyclone/Subtropical ridge Thermal Tropical

Anticyclones	Polar High Siberian High Azores High (Bermuda/North Atlantic) North American High (Canadian/Greenland) South Atlantic High (St.Helena) North Pacific High (Hawaii High) South Pacific High Kalahari High

Cyclones	Aleutian Low (Alaska/Far East Russia) Atlantic hurricane Australian Low (east coast) European windstorm Genoa Low Icelandic Low Kona storm (Hawaii) Nor'easter Pacific hurricane Polar vortex Typhoon Wake Low

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