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ryan
2016-05-15 22:34:47
Fog
A cloud on the ground
Fog is a visible mass consisting of cloud water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.[1] Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions. In turn, fog has affected many human activities, such as shipping, travel, and warfare. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog)
ryan
2016-05-02 22:00:44
HRRR
High Resolution Rapid Refresh
The Rapid Refresh (RR or RAP) is a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. The model is designed to provide short-range hourly weather forecasts for North America. The Rapid Refresh was officially made operational on May 1, 2012, replacing the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC). (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Refresh)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:59:09
Hodograph
This tool is useful in weather prediction
A hodograph is a diagram that gives a vectorial visual representation of the movement of a body or a fluid. It is the locus of one end of a variable vector, with the other end fixed.[1] The position of any plotted data on such a diagram is proportional to the velocity of the moving particle. It is also called a velocity diagram. It appears to have been used by James Bradley, but its practical development is mainly from Sir William Rowan Hamilton, who published an account of it in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1846. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodograph)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:58:27
Funnel Cloud
The precursor to a tornado
A funnel cloud (generally the cause of a tornado) is a funnel-shaped cloud of condensed water droplets, associated with a rotating column of wind and extending from the base of a cloud (usually a cumulonimbus or towering cumulus cloud) but not reaching the ground or a water surface. A funnel cloud is usually visible as a cone-shaped or needle like protuberance from the main cloud base. Funnel clouds form most frequently in association with supercell thunderstorms. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:56:38
Wall Cloud
The precursor to a funnel cloud
A wall cloud (or pedestal cloud) is a large, localized, persistent, and often abrupt lowering of cloud that develops beneath the surrounding base of a cumulonimbus cloud and from which sometimes forms tornadoes.[1] It is typically beneath the rain-free base (RFB)[2] portion of a thunderstorm, and indicates the area of the strongest updraft within a storm. Rotating wall clouds are an indication of a mesocyclone in a thunderstorm; most strong tornadoes form from these. Many wall clouds do not rotate, however. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_cloud)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:55:55
Wind
Wind drives weather
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On the surface of the Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the Sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space. Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the regions in which they occur, and their effect. The strongest observed winds on a planet in the Solar System occur on Neptune and Saturn. Winds have various aspects, an important one being its velocity; another the density of the gas involved; another is the energy content or wind energy of a wind. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:54:31
Snow
Its cold and white
Snow is precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice that falls from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft, white, and fluffy structure, unless subjected to external pressure. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are hail, ice pellets or snow grains. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:53:37
Hail
1 inch hail is considered severe
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from American sleet (called ice pellets outside of the United States), though the two are often confused.[1] It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Sleet (ice pellets) falls generally in cold weather while hail growth is greatly inhibited during cold surface temperatures. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:50:56
Floods
Floods, water everywhere
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry.[1] The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water.[2] In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood)
ryan
2016-05-02 21:50:05