Another cause for pessimism is that government does not respond to normal pressures.

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For on top of the normal pressures, she was recovering from treatment for a brain tumour that left her without most of her hair and exhausted.

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The combination of a weak el Nino that should develop with higher than normal pressures over the eastern and central Atlantic can create strong low level easterlies and enhance shear.

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