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 Martín León, Francisco (2003). "LAS GOTAS FRÍAS...
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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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Cyclone (redirect from Low-level circulation center)
[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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lows form in mid-latitudes (usually in the subtropics or between 20° and 45°) and can remain nearly stationary for days. A cut-off low is a cold-core...
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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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Supercell (redirect from Low-topped supercell)
sector of a low pressure system propagating generally in a north easterly direction[neutrality is disputed] in line with the cold front of the low pressure...
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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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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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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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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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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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Tropical cyclone (redirect from Warm-core low)
cycle. 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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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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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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Extratropical cyclone (redirect from Extratropical low)
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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thus rendering it visible. They form over large lakes and oceans during cold air outbreaks while the water is still relatively warm, and can be an important...
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ceases to rise. As it rises, it displaces air which descends outside the core of the vortex. This cool air returning acts as a balance against the spinning...
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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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Mesocyclone (redirect from Low-level mesocyclone)
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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lost at night, and cold weather in fall and winter when the amount of heat lost at night exceeds what is gained during daytime (with low pressure systems...
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Surface-based Upper level Cold-core low Cut-off low Polar vortex Upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex...
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reaching its highest latitude in early autumn, before moving back during the cold season. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can displace the northern...
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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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Subtropical cyclone (section Upper-level low)
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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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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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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Loyalton Fire in California and Nevada. A fire whirl consists of a burning core and a rotating pocket of air. A fire whirl can reach up to 2,000 °F (1,090 °C)...
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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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tail-like band of cloud extending from the wall cloud toward the precipitation core. It can be thought of as an extension of the wall cloud in that the tail...
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