Archives: Weather Model terms

  • September 24, 2024
    - The environmental temperature at 500 millibars minus the 500 millibar parcel temperature on a Skew-T diagram. Negative LI values…
  • September 24, 2024
    - Low pressure which develops just east of the Rocky Mountains or Cascades. Often lee troughs become organized into mature…
  • September 24, 2024
    - the heat energy that must be absorbed when a substance changes from solid to liquid and liquid to gas,…
  • September 24, 2024
    The change in temperature with altitude in the atmosphere.
  • September 24, 2024
    - The opposite of El Niño, when a major cooling occurs in the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean which…
  • September 24, 2024
    - A wind that blows from the land towards a body of water. Also known as an offshore breeze.
  • September 24, 2024
  • September 24, 2024
    - One nautical mile per hour (1.15 mph).