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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The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...