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A parade of storms is more of a slang term meteorologists will use to describe when one storm system after another follows the same track, often due to a persistent jet stream pattern.
Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...
Capping inversion (cap); Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS); Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR); Chaser convention – Originally it referred to serendipitous meeting of chasers in the field akin to "chaser convergence", but now it mostly refers to the National Storm Chasers Convention Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine held annually in the Denver, Colorado area.
Tropical storm watch TRA – Tropical storm conditions (gale- and storm-force sustained winds of 34 to 63 knots [39 to 72 mph; 63 to 117 km/h]) are possible within the specified coastal or inland area within 48 hours in advance of the forecast onset of tropical-storm-force winds. These winds may be accompanied by storm surge, and coastal and/or ...
When this occurs in the context of a winter storm, it can make for an icy mess. When warm air is present higher in the atmosphere (or at least warmer than freezing), the raindrop falls as rain.
While a winter storm and ice storm are both wintertime hazards, the impacts can be very different. A winter storm is when heavy snow is expected. The National Weather Service (NWS) may issue a ...
Another example of a storm track is the circumpolar storm track in the Antarctic, however land-sea contrasts play no role in its formation. Given a grid point field of geopotential height , storm tracks can be visualized by contouring its average standard deviation , after the data has been band-pass filtered.
You've probably heard the phrase "the calm before the storm" used to describe a great many things. The moment of quiet before a bunch of 5-year-olds arrive for a birthday party, for example, or ...