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  2. Orographic lift - Wikipedia

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    The island generates wave motion in the wind passing over it, creating regularly spaced orographic clouds. The wave crests raise and cool the air to form clouds, while the troughs remain too low for cloud formation. Note that while the wave motion is generated by orographic lift, it is not required. In other words, one cloud often forms at the ...

  3. Why did it flood so badly in Western North Carolina? Some ...

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    The orographic effect occurs when air masses are forced to flow over high topography, aka the mountains, according to Penn State. As these air masses rise over mountains, they cool and water vapor ...

  4. Precipitation types - Wikipedia

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    Orographic or relief rainfall is caused when masses of air are forced up the side of elevated land formations, such as large mountains or plateaus (often referred to as an upslope effect). The lift of the air up the side of the mountain results in adiabatic cooling with altitude, and ultimately condensation and precipitation.

  5. Weather front - Wikipedia

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    Orographic precipitation is precipitation created through the lifting action of air due to air masses moving over terrain such as mountains and hills, which is most common behind cold fronts that move into mountainous areas. It may sometimes occur in advance of warm fronts moving northward to the east of mountainous terrain.

  6. Precipitation - Wikipedia

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    Lake-effect snowfall can be locally heavy. Thundersnow is possible within a cyclone's comma head and within lake effect precipitation bands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to ...

  7. Orography - Wikipedia

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    An orographic map of Eastern Siberia from 1875 by Peter Kropotkin. Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, [1] and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain. [2] Orography (also known as oreography, orology, or oreology) falls within the broader discipline of geomorphology. [3]

  8. Mesoscale convective system - Wikipedia

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    The same effect over bodies of salt water is called ocean effect snow, [28] sea effect snow, [29] or even bay effect snow. [30] The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic effect of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow, but very intense bands of precipitation, which is ...

  9. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1259 on Friday, November 29 ...

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    Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Friday, November 29.