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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 drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

The formation of ice crystals on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, typically overnight, causing potential...

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 process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...