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What is an anticyclone?

Anticyclone is a weather system with high barometric pressure at its centre, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise direction in the southern hemisphere direction. Anticyclones are associated with calm, fine weather. 

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