Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. The Pacific high drifts northward during the summer. Sinking air on its eastern side produces a strong upper level subsidence inversion, which tends to keep summer weather along the California coast relatively DRY | WET


DRY

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What will be an ideal response?

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What will be an ideal response?

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