troughs
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Mexican government forecasters say troughs - small-scale low pressure features - are expected in the middle and upper layers of the atmosphere over central parts of Mexico on Sunday, making the atmosphere very unstable.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Convoluted Line A” and “Convoluted Line B” are metal troughs set into a raised concrete platform, their winding forms charting a course that visitors must circumvent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
If the war is mercifully short and risk appetite troughs in March, as Hartnett and team expect, then the bid for what he refers to as the inflation boom beneficiaries should reassert itself.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
In this analogy, troughs are associated with lower pressure and cooler, wetter weather, while ridges are linked to higher pressure and warmer, drier conditions — helping explain why cold snaps and warm spells often alternate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Emma shone her flame around as we walked among the troughs, trying to guess which might hold more than just the corpses of fish—but they all looked the same, just lidless coffins of ice.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
