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Cold air funnel – (colloquialism) Cold front; Collar cloud; Colorado low; Cool air advection (CAA) Condensation funnel – The area of a funnel cloud or tornado where cloud has condensed. This is not the same thing as a tornado, which is a vortex of wind. Confluence; Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) –
Horizontal deformation in mid-latitude cyclones concentrates temperature gradients—cold air from the poles and warm air from the equator.. Horizontal shear has two effects on an air parcel; it tends to rotate the parcel (think of placing a wheel at a point in space and as the wind blows, the wheel rotates) and deform the parcel through stretching and shrinking.
A cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. National Weather Service , a cold wave is a rapid fall in temperature within a 24-hour period requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry ...
Thursday's weather will feature an Arctic blast for the Midwest and Northeast and still more lake-effect snow for the Great Lakes. Cold air associated with a high-pressure area will move over the ...
50-states-all-time-cold.jpg Alaska holds the all-time U.S. record. The mercury plummeted to 80 degrees below zero on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, north of Fairbanks.
Grandma’s warnings about getting sick walking barefoot on a cold floor or going outside with wet hair have some truth. ... If the air is cooler and drier, droplets stay in the air longer, which ...
Other science fiction and horror films released in the late 1950s and 1960s with enlargement or shrinking as a major plot element include Tarantula, The Phantom Planet, Fantastic Voyage (which was adapted into an animated television series of the same name), and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman—which got a remake in 1993 starring Daryl Hannah and ...
Factoring in the cold air coming this weekend, new low-temperature marks will be set for the season so far. Highs on Sunday and Monday are forecast to be in the mid-20s, with nighttime lows to ...