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Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather and its greater meaning. Much like regular folklore, weather lore is passed down through speech and writing from normal people without the use of external measuring instruments. The origin of weather lore can be dated back to primeval men and their usage of ...
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere, [2] [3] just below the stratosphere.
Whiteout or white-out [1] is a weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow, fog, or sand. The horizon disappears from view while the sky and landscape appear featureless, leaving no points of visual reference by which to navigate.
Airport weather warning AWW – Addresses weather phenomena (including but not limited to surface wind gusts around or above 40 knots (46 mph), freezing rain, heavy snow or thunderstorms producing cloud-to-ground lightning within 5 miles [8.0 km] of the airport and/or 1 ⁄ 2-inch [1.3 cm] hail) capable of adversely affecting ground operations ...
The "feels like" temperature, generally, is a more accurate description of what the human body will experience when stepping outside.
Weather modification is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather.The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which increases rainfall or snowfall, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply. [1]
Earthships run entirely off the grid, but that doesn't mean they're lacking amenities. They have working bathrooms, heat, television and refrigeration, all without the use of fossil fuels.
The band of precipitation that is associated with their warm front is often extensive, forced by weak upward vertical motion of air over the frontal boundary which condenses as it cools and produces precipitation within an elongated band, [63] which is wide and stratiform, meaning falling out of nimbostratus clouds. [64]