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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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Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.