Siberian high

noun

, Meteorology.

1. the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.

Example Sentences

As west-to-east flow hits the Siberian high, wave energy can propagate up to the stratosphere, distorting and ultimately stretching the vortex.

From Washington Post

One is that it may increase the so-called “Siberian High”, a huge build-up of dry, freezing air that is known to affect much of the northern hemisphere’s weather—for there seems to be a link between the loss of sea ice in parts of the Arctic and lower temperatures in Siberia.

From Economist

As to specific concerns over the Siberian High, “the evidence is a little bit mixed. It’s quite clear that the really severe episodes” of air pollution in China, especially in the north, “definitely have as part of their cause a meteorological phenomenon, more inversion, more stagnation. And possibly it’s a credible surmise,” he said.

From New York Times

That's because widespread autumn snow cover in Siberia strengthens a semipermanent high-pressure system called, appropriately enough, the Siberian high, which reinforces a climate phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation and steers frigid air southward to midlatitude regions throughout the winter.

From Science Magazine

A faded photograph from 1962: at a Soviet-American track-and-field championship in Palo Alto, Calif., Siberian High Jumper Valeriy Brumel sprang past Bostonian John Thomas for his world record of 7 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive