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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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Glossary

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

A blizzard is a storm that lasts 3 hours or more, with persistent winds/frequent gusts of 35 mph or more along with significant...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.