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General weather

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Landfall

Weather; General weather

The point at which a tropical cyclone's eye first crosses a land mass.

Climate prediction centre (cpc)

Weather; General weather

A branch of the National centres for Environmental Prediction, the centre maintains a continuous watch on short-term climate fluctuations and diagnoses and predicts them. For further information, ...

A type of advection fog that is produced by evaporation when cool air passes over a warm wet surface and the fog rises, giving the appearance of steam. Also called sea smoke when it occurs over the ...

Mean sea level

Weather; General weather

The average height of the sea surface water level. For the United States, it is computed by averaging the levels of all tide stages over a nineteen year period, determined from hourly height readings ...

Synoptic chart

Weather; General weather

Any map or chart that depicts meteorological or atmospheric conditions over a large area at any given time.

Convection

Weather; General weather

The mass motion within a fluid, resulting in the transport and mixing of the properties of that fluid. This could be the transport of heat and/or moisture. It is often used to imply only upward ...