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

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...

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour, characterized by a central eye, strong winds, and...

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

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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