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Light Wind
1 to 9 knots
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Backing winds
Winds which are changing direction in an anti-clockwise fashion.
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1 or 2
Literally 'one or two' during the forecast period.
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300/500mb height
Upper air patterns are analysed and forecast at these heights. Wind and height fields at these heights, around 30000ft and 20000ft respectively, are used to establish weather patterns at the surface. [..]
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a few
Literally 'a few' during the forecast period.
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Absolute instability
A condition that exists where the environmental lapse rate exceeds the dry adiabatic lapse rate
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Advection
The process of transport of an atmospheric property solely by the mass motion (velocity field) of the atmosphere. Often, particularly in synoptic meteorology, advection refers only to the horizontal o [..]
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afternoon
12 noon to 6pm.
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Aircraft turbulence
Irregular motion of an aircraft in flight, especially when characterized by rapid up-and-down motion, caused by a rapid variation of atmospheric wind velocities. Usually associated with larger cumulus [..]
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airmass
A widespread body of air, the properties of which can be identified as 1) having been established while that air was situated over a particular region of the earth's surface (airmass source regio [..]
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