Can someone answer this question about wind direction and the pressure gradient force?
Imagine you are standing at a field looking south. This wind is blowing strongly at your back (so towards the south). Give this, what direction would the pressure gradient be pointing? Would you guess the cyclone is moving towards you or away from you, given what we’ve see from the general movement of weather at our latitude?
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I thought I just answered this but I must have erased it so I’m rewriting quickly.
Isobars are what measure the pressure gradient as a rule of thumb isobars run parallel to the wind. so they must also be south.
In order to determine the location/direction of the low you use guy ballots law: "if you stand with the wind to your back the center of the low will be to your left" Lows also mostly travel easterly so either north east or south east.