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In addition to cooling us down, the trough is also responsible for being quite the rainmaker.
For us, we've just seen scattered showers, but states closer to the Atlantic coast have been dealing with much more rain.
You'll find a center of low pressure rotating counterclockwise within the jet stream trough.
A ridge is every opposite of a trough. You'll find dry and hot condition, a center of high pressure and clockwise rotation around the high.
The pattern is expected to break soon, so expect temperatures to work their way back up to normal in the next couple of days.
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