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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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CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...