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    A cold-core low, also known as an upper level low or cold-core cyclone, is a cyclone aloft which has an associated cold pool of air residing at high altitude...
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    North Pacific, Northeastern United States and the northeast Atlantic. Cold-core low Cold pool Polar vortex Basque: tanta hotz; Catalan: gota freda; French:...
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    Cut-off lows form in mid-latitudes (usually between 20° and 45°) and can remain nearly stationary for days. A cut-off low is a cold-core low where wind...
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    [citation needed]. However, vigorous polar lows can be found over the Southern Ocean. During winter, when cold-core lows with temperatures in the mid-levels...
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    Funnel cloud (redirect from Cold air funnel)
    Cold Core 500-mb Lows". Weather and Forecasting. 21 (6): 1051–1062. Bibcode:2006WtFor..21.1051D. doi:10.1175/WAF967.1. Cooley, Jack R. (1978). "Cold Air...
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    of low pressure. The largest low-pressure systems are cold-core polar cyclones and extratropical cyclones which lie on the synoptic scale. Warm-core cyclones...
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    lows with extensive cumulonimbus clouds, which are often associated with cold pools in the mid- to upper-troposphere. During winter, when cold-core lows...
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    below 6,080 metres (19,950 ft) in altitude, as it is an example of a cold-core low. A weak inverted wave in the easterlies is generally found beneath it...
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    area. A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around...
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    center) to baroclinic processes. The low pressure system eventually loses its warm core and becomes a cold-core system. The peak time of subtropical cyclogenesis...
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    warm sector of a low pressure system propagating generally in a north easterly direction[globalize] in line with the cold front of the low pressure system...
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    large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both of Earth's polar regions. Polar vortices also exist on other rotating, low-obliquity planetary...
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    outbreak and its costliest weather disaster on record. Spawned by a nearby cold-core low, successive hailstorms in Phoenix and surrounding locations on October 5...
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    intensified two days later, reaching peak intensity on 7 November, due to a cold-core low aloft. Qendresa directly hit Malta in the afternoon and then crossed...
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    either cold core or warm core, and in 1972 this type of subtropical cyclone was ephemerally referred to as a "neutercane". Kona storms (or Kona lows) are...
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    strength of the high-pressure system. When extremely cold air moves over relatively warm oceans, polar lows can develop. However, warm and moist (or maritime...
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    cyclone couples with the upper-level trough or upper-level low, becoming increasingly cold core. The spin-down of cyclones, also known as cyclolysis, can...
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    surface-based haze under their base. Anticyclones aloft can form within warm-core lows such as tropical cyclones, due to descending cool air from the backside...
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  • High can bring unusually cold weather into the tropics as far southeast as the Philippines. It may block or reduce the size of low-pressure cells and generate...
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  • Thumbnail for Cold fusion
    term "cold fusion" in 1986 in an investigation of "geo-fusion", the possible existence of fusion involving hydrogen isotopes in a planetary core. In his...
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  • (15 mi) in size, and they would lose strength quickly after venturing into colder waters. The waters after a hypercane could remain hot enough for weeks,...
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    always feature warm-core lows, polar lows are primarily cold-core. The prolonged life of medicanes and similarity to polar lows is caused primarily by...
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    weather pattern that is as destructive as a hurricane, but which exhibits the cold-weather patterns of a winter storm. The Oxford English Dictionary has published...
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    Kona storm (redirect from Kona low)
    makes categorization of the systems not straightforward. Kona lows are typically cold core, making them extratropical cyclones. However, they generally...
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    often associated with a local region of low-pressure. Their rotation is (usually) in the same direction as low pressure systems in a given hemisphere:...
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    Nicorette approaching the NSW south coast tornadic waterspout. Pictures of cold-core waterspouts over Lake Michigan on 30 September 2006. Archived from the...
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    Alberta clipper Cold-core low Panhandle hook Sudestada Winter storm Pacific Northwest windstorm Aleutian low European windstorm Polar vortex Cold wave Multi-Community...
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    mature low pressure areas. There are two types of front occlusions, warm and cold, depending on the temperature contrast: In a cold occlusion, the cold air...
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    hallucinating. Cold stress refers to a near-normal body temperature with low skin temperature; signs include shivering. Cold stress is caused by cold exposure...
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    recorded low-pressure systems are fully cold core storms while the remaining third display hybrid features, which are defined by a warm core at lower...
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