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Gale warning

Weather; General weather

A warning for marine interests for impending winds from 28 to 47 knots (32 to 54 miles per hour).

Ridge

Weather; General weather

An elongated area of high atmospheric pressure that is associated with an area of maximum anticyclonic circulation. The opposite of a trough.

The study of the physics or nature of earth and its environment. It deals with the composition and physical phenomena of the earth and its liquid and gaseous envelopes. Areas of studies include the ...

Anticyclone

Weather; General weather

A relative pressure maximum. An area of pressure that has diverging winds and a rotation opposite to the earth's rotation. This is clockwise the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the ...

Glaze

Weather; General weather

A smooth clear icy coating of supercooled water droplets that spread out and freeze onto objects on contact. A storm that produces the accretion of glaze is called an ice storm.

Rotation

Weather; General weather

The spinning of a body, such as the earth, about its axis.

Anvil

Weather; General weather

The upper portion of a cumulonimbus cloud that becomes flat and spread-out, sometimes for hundreds of miles downstream from the parent cloud. It may look smooth or fibrous, but in shape, it resembles ...