– a temperature scale in which zero is the freezing point of water and one hundred is the boiling point.

(CHC)

A warm, dry wind that blows along the east slopes of the northern Rocky Mountains.

– High altitude ice clouds with a very thin wispy appearance.

– Cirrus clouds with vertical development.

– Cirrus clouds with a flat sheetlike appearance.

(CI)

– Having all the ingredients for a specific type of weather (i.e. classic severe weather event, classic Nor’easter)