Wind and pressure
This is the apparent deflection in the wind caused by the earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Force?
During the winter Colorado is sometimes home to these wierd clouds that are smoothed and sit over one spot for hours.
What are lenticular or wave clouds?
An abrupt boundary between very moist conditions and very dry conditions.
What is a dry line?
A surface low that deepens rapidly.
What is a Meteorological bomb?
A winter storm warning has been issued for metro Denver. What conditions do you expect to see?
What is at least 6 inches of snow, along with wind.
This weather problem is associated with strong Santa Ana winds in California.
What are forest fires?
The reason the moist adiabatic lapse rate is lower than the dry adiabatic lapse rate.
What is latent heat of condensation?
This type of front has a very gentle slope and stratiform precipitation.
What is a warm front?
Any storm system that travels across Colorado gets torn up by the mountains and will reform over the plains.
What is a lee side low?
This warning for life threatening flooding will alarm the WEA network so you cell phone will alert you.
What is a flash flood warning?
The pressure measured at an observing site before it is corrected for sea level.
What is station pressure?
When a parcel of air rises and cools along a lapse rate.
What is an adiabatic process?
This airmass affects the Pacific Northwest, bringing cloudy, damp and cold conditions.
What is a Maritime Polar airmass?
This will be found directly above a deepening surface low in an extratropical cyclone.
What is divergence and cyclonic shear aloft.
This stormtrack will give you the best chance at a snow day or two.
What is and upper low moving along the Colorado-New Mexico border?
It is the reason surface winds are slower than winds aloft and why they cross isobars.
What is friction?
When the moist adiabatic lapse rate is less than the environmental lapse rate which is less than the dry adiabatic lapse rate.
What is conditional instability?
You can see these on satellite as a long narrow ribbon of clouds and moisture extending from the tropics to the Pacific northwest.
What is an atmospheric river, or a Pineapple Express?
The portion of the extratropical cyclone where you might find severe thunderstorms.
What is the warm sector (ahead of the cold front)
This is a good upslope wind direction for Denver.
What are north, or northeast.
This circulation shows rising motion at the equator, sinking motion at about 30 degrees north and south.
What is the Hadley Cell?
four ways to produce lift in the atmosphere.
What are frontal lifting, orographic lifting, convective lifting, and convergent lifting?
If this airmass visits Denver, we can set new record low temperatures and one of these visited us this week!
What is the arctic continental airmass?
This is the typical birthplace of an extratropical cyclone.
What is the polar front?
What is the only warning issued by the National Weather Service where they consult with another agency?
What is a red flag warning for critical fire conditions? (Land management agencies report on fuels status)