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.

Glossary

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

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

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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