Weather 101
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[Nov 12th 2009] Morning dew or morning condensation is fairly common and not too hard to forecast. The perfect recipe for a morning dew occurs when the sky is clear, winds are light, dew point and temperature are close together, and finally sufficient amount of s... - read on...
[Nov 12th 2009] Advection is a meteorological term used to describe the movement of an air mass. Such terms that are used with advection are cold air advection and warm air advection. For example, if cold air advection occurs at a certain location, then that spec... - read on...
[Nov 12th 2009] The relative humidity is used all of the time. But sometime this number can be deceiving. During the summertime, a high relative humidity usually indicates intolerable conditions, where as the wintertime, the air is much drier, so the relative hum... - read on...
[Nov 12th 2009] Upper level lows are beasts that can keep the weather fairly cloudy and damp for days on end, especially when they cut off from the main branch of the jet stream. Basically an upper level low (ULL) is an body of positive vorticity that can be caus... - read on...











