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  2. Glossary of meteorology - Wikipedia

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    Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...

  3. Temperature (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Effective temperature, of a body such as a star or planet; Human body temperature; Fever or "having a temperature", the elevation of the body temperature; Noise temperature, a measure of the noise of an electronic component; Temperature (softmax function), a parameter that alters the entropy of the softmax function or Boltzmann distribution

  4. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.

  5. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Extreme cold warning NPW – Dangerously cold air temperatures and/or wind chills, capable of causing life-threatening medical conditions (such as severe frostbite and hypothermia) or death associated with accelerated heat loss from exposed skin, are forecast to meet or exceed locally defined warning criteria for more than three hours over at ...

  6. List of local winds - Wikipedia

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    Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra); Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan); East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.

  7. Cold hands are common in winter. When are they a sign of a ...

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    First, a quick science lesson on cold hands: “The body regulates the temperature of the hand mainly by controlling blood flow through the radial and the ulnar arteries,” Dr. Abayomi Ogunwale ...

  8. Cold - Wikipedia

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    An iceberg, which is commonly associated with cold Signal "cold" – unofficial (except recommended by CMAS), it is nonetheless used by many schools of diving and propagated through diving websites as one of the more useful additional signals [1] Goose bumps, a common physiological response to cold, aiming to reduce the loss of body heat in a cold environment A photograph of the snow surface ...

  9. Template:Convert/list of units/temperature - Wikipedia

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