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A Short-Term Forecast NOW (alt., NOWcast) is an event-driven narrative outlook of near-term weather conditions within the Weather Forecast Office’s area of responsibility, typically valid for a three- to seven-hour period. The product outlines any ongoing or recently occurring conditions—based on radar analysis, satellite imagery and other ...
Wedge tornado – (slang) Storm chaser slang for a very large tornado. Typically a wedge tornado is defined as one that is wider at ground level than it is tall (from ground to cloud base). Whirlwind; Wind; Windstorm; Wind direction; Wind profiler; Wind shear; Wind speed; Wind Science and Engineering Research Center (WiSE) Winter waterspout
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 ...
Landfall: Landfall does not mean that a hurricane has “hit land.” It means that the hurricane’s eye, or it’s center, has passed over land. ... The center can be completely devoid of clouds ...
The hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific basin runs from May 15 to November 30. The hurricane season in the Central Pacific basin runs from June 1 to November 30. [1] Hurricane Warning An announcement that hurricane conditions (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher) are expected somewhere within the specified coastal area.
Hours before Hurricane Milton was set to make landfall, thousands had already fled Sarasota, the Gulf Coast county that could be at or near ground zero for the storm’s furious march across Florida.
Debris cloud (informal term) – rotating "cloud" of debris found at base of tornado. Funnel cloud (WMO supplementary feature tuba) – rotating funnel of cloud hanging from under Cb, not making contact with ground. Hail fog (informal term) – a shallow surface layer of fog that sometimes forms in vicinity of deep hail accumulation, can be ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...