– A ratio temperature scale using 0 as the theoretical coldest temperature.

– One nautical mile per hour (1.15 mph).

– A wind that blows from the land towards a body of water. Also known as an offshore breeze.

– The opposite of El Niño, when a major cooling occurs in the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean which is characterized by shifts in “normal” weather patterns.

The change in temperature with altitude in the atmosphere.

– the heat energy that must be absorbed when a substance changes from solid to liquid and liquid to gas, and which is released when a gas condenses and a liquid solidifies.

– Low pressure which develops just east of the Rocky Mountains or Cascades. Often lee troughs become organized into mature cyclones as they develop eastward.