High-pressure area to describe the weather systems generated by highs and lows were introduced in the mid-1800s, mostly by the British. The scientific theories which explain the general phenomena originated about two centuries earlier. The term cyclone was coined by Henry Piddington of the British East India Company to describe the devastating storm of December 1789 in Coringa, India. A cyclone forms around a low-pressure area. Anticyclone, the term for the kind of weather around a high-pressure area, was coined in 1877 by Francis Galton to indicate an area whose winds revolved in the opposite direction of a cyclone. In British English,
High Pressure Low High Pressure Low "High Pressure Low" is the third single from Against Me!'s fifth studio album "White Crosses", released as a 7" vinyl single on December 21, 2010 on Sabot Productions. Following the recording their fifth studio album, White Crosses, Against Me! recorded acoustic versions of songs written for the album in February 2010. An acoustic version of "High Pressure Low" was known to be recorded following lead singer Laura Jane Grace's video posts regarding the acoustic sessions. Grace performed the b-side, "Strip Mall Parking Lots" as early as her 2008 solo tour, then thought to be called "Southwest Florida