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

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

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

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

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

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

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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

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

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