Weather-related cancellation or sometimes a delay is when an institution is closed or its opening delayed, or an activity is cancelled or postponed due to inclement weather conditions.
Weather Glossary and Terminology
Below is a list of weather terms that are described in weather reports, forecasts and readings.
Weather Glossary: Watches, Warnings and Advisories
Watch - The potential exists for a significant/dangerous weather event.
Warning A significant/dangerous weather event is imminent.
Weather Questions and Answers
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Weather Glossary
Many of the terms in this glossary are abbreviations commonly used in the "Area Forecast Discussion."
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WEATHER VOCABULARY
Acid rain- Rain that contains more acid than normal.
Air mass- A huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout.
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Weather
The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
Weather warnings
In Australia, state by state warnings of impending or actual weather that has the potential to cause loss of life or damage to property. These are issued by the BoM.
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WEATHERING The decay and breakup of rocks on the earth's surface by natural chemical and mechanical processes. The mechanical action includes large changes of temperature, extreme temperatures, frost, or the impact of wind borne sand or water.
Weather Balloon- Large balloon filled with helium or hydrogen that carries a radiosonde (weather instrument) aloft to measure temperature pressure and humidity as the balloon rises through the air.
Weather Glossary
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YEAR The interval required for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun.
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"C" Weather "C" is the designator for contact weather, meaning that pilots of aircraft have sufficient visibility to fly without instruments and use only visual reference to the ground surface.
Dry Weather Flow
In hydrologic terms, streamflow which results from precipitation that infiltrates into the soil and eventually moves through the soil to the stream channel. This is also referred to as baseflow, or ground water flow.
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WEATHER GLOSSARY
Backing Winds - Winds which shift in a counterclockwise direction with time at a given location (e.g. from southerly to southeasterly), or change direction in a counterclockwise sense with height (e.g.
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Weather - State of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness. Also, weather is the meteorological day-to-day variations of the atmosphere and their effects on life and human activity.
A weather condition when no air motion (wind) is detected.
Canyon Wind
A foehn wind that is channeled through a canyon as it descends the lee side of a mountain barrier.
National Weather Service Observing Handbook No. 7, Surface Weather Observations and Reports. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1996.
A line on a weather map linking areas with equal air pressure
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STORMFAX® Weather Words
ACID RAIN: Cloud droplets combining with gaseous pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make falling rain or snow acidic.
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absolute humidity- the mass of water vapor in a unit volume of air.
Air-Mass - Weather The conditions experienced in an area as an air mass passes over it. Because air masses are large and relatively homogeneous, air-mass weather will be fairly constant and may last for several days.
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Troposphere - The layer of the atmosphere from the ground to around 33,000 feet (10 kilometers). This is where much of the weather we experience occurs.
Volume - The amount of space occupied by a substance or object.
weather - The state of the atmosphere, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and human activities. As distinguished from climate, weather consists of the short-term (minutes to days) variations in the atmosphere.
Weather Glossary
Vorticity
A measure of the local rotation in a fluid flow.
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wet-bulb temperature
The final temperature attained by the wetted muslin covered wet bulb thermometer of a psychrometer when thoroughly ventilated.
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Weather and Flood information
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Weather Forecast Office (WFO): This National Weather Service office is responsible for issuing advisories, warnings, statements, and short term forecasts for its county warning area.
Weather The state of the atmosphere in terms of such variables as temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, and radiation.
Weather watch Issued when hazardous weather is considered possible based on current or anticipated atmospheric conditions.
weather radar—Radar specifically designed for observing weather. See cloud detection radar and storm detection radar.
weather vane—A wind vane.
wedge—Same as ridge.
N weather - (Obsolete.) Abbreviation for instrument weather.
NAT - See nitric acid trihydrate.
NEC - Abbreviation for North Equatorial Current.
Past weather Predominant characteristic of the weather which had existed at an observing station during a given period of time (during the preceding hour or six hours), specified in the international SYNOP code.
NOAA Weather Radio
A 24-hour continuous broadcast of existing and forecasted weather conditions.
Nocturnal Cooling
Lowering of air temperature caused by nocturnal radiation.
NOAA WEATHER RADIO (NWR)- Continuous, 24 hour-a-day VHF broadcasts of weather observations and forecasts directly from National Weather Service offices. A special tone allows certain receivers to alarm when watches or warnings are issued.
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Winter Weather Advisory - Issued for winter weather situations that may cause significant inconvenience and, if caution is not exercised, could lead to life threatening situations.
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Weather Glossary Terms
Sometimes on Metcheck we use weather terms which we think are everyday language, but to many they're not... Below is a list of terms you'll sometimes see on Metcheck.
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National Weather Service Glossary
This glossary contains information on more than 2000 terms, phrases and abbreviations used by the NWS.
NWS - National Weather Service.
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Occluded Mesocyclone - A mesocyclone in which air from the rear-flank downdraft has completely enveloped the circulation at low levels, cutting off the inflow of warm unstable low-level air.
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Basic Meteorological Terminology
Adiabatic - Referring to a process without the addition or removal of heat. A temperature change may come about as a result of a change in the state of a gas.
Weather Glossary: References
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Techncial Memorandum NWS SR-145: A Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters, Michael Branick, NOAA/WFO Norman ...
WEATHER AND CHASING TERMINOLOGY
123 RULE - Weighted average of tropical cyclone forecast errors (in nautical miles) based on historical information. This rule implies a "1" for the first forecast period, 24 hours, as a 100-mile error.
Weather Map - a map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region
Weather Radar - any radar which can be used to detect precipitation or clouds ...
Weather - The condition of the air around the earth. It is the condition at a certain time and a certain place.
Weather - the observable and measure conditions of the outdoor atmosphere.
Wind chill - a pseudo temperature which lets people know what the cooling effect of the wind would feel like.
Weather Synopsis- a description of weather patterns affecting a large area.
Wind- air in motion relative to the surface of the earth.
Weather: The current state of the atmosphere at a particular location.
Wien's Law: A radiation law that describes why hotter objects give off most of their radiant energy at shorter wavelengths than do cooler objects.
Weather elements The elements of air temperature, air pressure, humidity, clouds, precipitation, visibility, and wind that determine the present state of the atmosphere, the weather.
Weather Terms
Clear: Sky cloud-free to 30 percent covered.
Sunny: Sunshine 70-100 percent of the day.
Partly sunny and partly cloudy: Both terms refer to 40 to 70 percent cloud cover.
 See also: Air, Meteor, Temperature, Surface, Water
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