What is Gale?
A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy weather.
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The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.
A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.