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As we leave the monastery, a line of women carrying heavy baskets filled with tools for construction or farming walk through the room of prayer wheels, spinning them clockwise.

Marquees thanking first responders and expressing love for Los Angeles, clockwise from top left: El Capitan Theater, a movie theater on Fairfax Avenue, Quentin Tarantino’s Beverly Cinema and the Hollywood Bowl.

In the Northern Hemisphere, high-pressure systems create winds that rotate in a clockwise direction around their center.

With winds flowing clockwise around high pressure systems, they move south and west into southern California, where they descend over the inland Sierra mountains.

A clockwise high-pressure system was parked over Northern California and the Great Basin as a counterclockwise low-pressure system hovered over Arizona.