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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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Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

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

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

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

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

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

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

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...