The Ways of the Weather |
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25 November 500 millibar adiabatic lapse rate ahead air currents air pressure air rises aircraft ALTOCUMULUS ascending balloon barometer British Isles bubbles changes Chapter CIRROSTRATUS CIRROSTRATUS CLOUD CIRRUS CLOUDS cloud droplets cold air mass cold front condensation contour chart contour lines cool cumulonimbus cloud cumulus clouds depressions and anticyclones descending air differences earth equator forecasting offices frontal surface G. A. Clarke geostrophic wind ground heat height ice crystals known latitudes layer long waves low pressure map of isobars mercury meteorologists miles motion nimbostratus observations occlusion occur PLATE plotted polar regions pole position prebaratic chart radar radiosonde saturated sea level secondary depression seen showers stations Stratocumulus Stratosphere stratus temperature thermometer thickness chart thunderstorms tropopause troposphere trough upward usually vertical warm air mass warm front warmer water droplets water vapour weather area weather chart weather forecasting weather map weather report westerlies wind speed