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A thermocline (also known as the thermal layer or the metalimnion in lakes) is a distinct layer based on temperature within a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) with a high gradient of distinct temperature differences associated with depth.
West Okoboji Lake (highlighted in purple), in the Iowa Great Lakes region. West Okoboji Lake (sometimes known as West Lake Okoboji) is a natural body of water, approximately 3,847 acres (15.57 km 2) in area, in Dickinson County in northwestern Iowa in the United States. It is part of the chain of lakes known as the Iowa Great Lakes.
Lake stratification is the tendency of lakes to form separate and distinct thermal layers during warm weather. Typically stratified lakes show three distinct layers: the epilimnion, comprising the top warm layer; the thermocline (or metalimnion), the middle layer, whose depth may change throughout the day; and the colder hypolimnion, extending to the floor of the lake.
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Iowa Lake is a lake in the U.S. states of Iowa and Minnesota. [1] Iowa Lake was so named from the fact it straddles the Iowa–Minnesota state line. [2] References
The three-month forecast for March through May by the National Weather Service calls for a 40%-50% chance of above-normal precipitation in the southern half of Iowa, but also a 30-40% chance of ...
Lake-effect rain forms in a smilar way to lake-effect snow: cold air moves across the relatively warmer waters of lakes, thereby creating a sharp drop in temperature from the lake surface through the first several thousand feet in the atmosphere (the temperature gradient is known as the "lapse rate"), and then it precipitates the moisture over ...
The weather service also is forecasting record high minimum temperatures on Wednesday in Mason City (34 degrees, 2 degrees above the 1925 mark), and Waterloo, with 36 degrees, up from 33 in 1996.