Coastal Weather

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Coastal Weather

Coastal weather can be observed in the coastal or oceanic regions. The western coasts of the

continents and the southeastern regions of Australia are characterized with their coastal

climate.

The southeastern Australia is located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

One of the most prominent characteristics of coastal weather is that the temperature does not

vary so much with the change of seasons throughout the year in these of these coastal areas.

The climate of marine regions is never extremes.

Hot Weather

Extreme hot weather can be seen in the equatorial regions of the earth. Throughout the year,

the temperature remains very warm in these equatorial locations. The climate in equatorial

regions is also characterized with a very damp and humid weather. The amount of rainfall is

also very high throughout the year. Sometimes the temperature falls a little (only about 3

degrees of Celsius) in the winter months.

Cold Weather

Cold weather can be observed in the polar climate zones. These regions are known for their

extreme cold climates. The temperature remains almost same throughout the year n these Polar

Regions.

Mountain Weather

The weather in the mountainous regions is known as the mountain weather. The climate of

those regions is generally cold enough. New Zealand comes under those high countries that

enjoy the mountain weather conditions.

I'm going to list ten types and I expect you to look through a book or something else (maybe

wikipedia?) to find information that will aid in your own description.

Type 1: Sunny Skies

Type 2: Cloudy Skies

Type 3: Fog

Type 4: Rain

Type 5: Freezing Rain and/orSleet

Type 6: Snow

Type 7: Thunderstorm
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Type 8: Windy Days

Type 9: Very Warm and Very Humid

Type 10: Very Cold and Very Dry

Rainy

Stormy

Sunny

Cloudy

Hot

Cold

Dry

Wet

Windy

Hurricanes

Sand-storms

Snow-storms

Tornados

Humid

Foggy

Snowy

Weather


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Clouds

Weather type 1 - Clouds

There are four basic types of clouds. High clouds,

middle clouds, low clouds, and clouds with verticaldevelopement. There are also clouds that don't fallinto any of these groups.

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Dust

Weather type 2 - Dust Storm

Dust storms are created by winds moving across an

arid region. Many times a strong dry cold front is themechanism that creates the dust or sand storm. Asstrong winds move across an arid landscape, sandor dirt is picked up from the ground. Sometimes the

lighter dust particles can be lifted up to 20,000 feethigh into the atmosphere. A classic example of thisis a sand and dust storm that develops over the

Sahara desert. Easterly winds may carry the dust


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particles across the Atlantic ocean to the CaribbeanIslands or Florida. Severe sand and dust storms can

obscure visibility to zero and last for days. Picturecourtesy of NOAA, George E. Marsh.

Fog

Weather type 3 - Fog

Fog is a stratus cloud on the ground. There areseveral types of fog. Advection fog is produced by ahortizontal motion of warm moist air over colderground. An example of this would be a warm front


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moving across land with a recent snow or coldweather. Radiation fog is produced as heat from the

earth surface is radiated back to space at night. Amoist layer and nearly calm winds need to bepresent. Wind can mix in dryer air aloft, keeping the

air below the saturation point. Steam fog forms

when cold air moves over relatively warm water.This can be observed as wisps of "steam" rising from

lakes, rivers or oceans when a cold air mass movesin. Upslope fog occurs as air is pushed up amountainside and becomes saturated so thatcondensation occurs. Fog photographs courtesy ofRich Johnson and NOAA

Freezing Rain / Ice


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Weather type 4 - Freezing Rain / Ice

Freezing rain - known as "ice" occurs when a thinlayer of freezing or below freezing air exists near the

earth's surface. Typically this occurs when snow fallsinto warmer air changing the precipitation into rain.If a very thin layer of freezing air is present near the

ground the rain will freeze on objects such as powerlines, trees, and cars. Ice accumulations begin tocause serious problems when the ice is 1/2" orgreater on objects. Freezing rain pictures courtesy ofNick Stefano.

Hail


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Weather type 5 - Hail

The exact processes that creates hail are still being

studied. Traditionally, textbooks showed hailstonesbeing formed as a water droplet was carried aloftwith an updaft into subfreezing air and freezing. As

the ice moved into a downdraft, more water coatedthe hailstone. The cycle continued with the hailstonecontinuing to grow with each ride up and down theupdraft and downdraft.

More recent studies suggest that super cooled waterdroplets are carried aloft by strong updrafts inthunderstorms. A small ice particle forms and grows


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as "waves" of supercooled water droplets continueto bump into the ice particle. A new coat of ice

grows with each cycle. The hailstone is kept aloft bythe strong updraft. The stronger the updraft thegreater the force to keep the heavier hailstones

aloft. The hailstone eventually falls to the grown

when the the weight is too great for it to remainaloft or when it gets pushed out of the updraft.

Sometimes hailstones bump into each other whilebeing bombarded with supercooler water dropletsand stick together giving the hailstone a spikedappearance.

The largest known hailstone fell on June 23, 2003 in

Aurora, Nebraska and had a diameter of seveninches and weighed almost one pound. The heaviesthailstone fell in Coffeeville, Kansas on September 3,

1970 and weighed 1.7 pounds. Hail is considered

severe when the diameter reaches one inch orquarter size.

Hail photographs courtesy of NOAA and Jim

Reed. jimreedphoto.com

Hurricanes
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Weather type 6 - Hurricane

Check out our complete library onhurricaneson ourhurricane school page. We also havehurricane

tracking chartsso that you can follow the path ofhurricanes. Check out just about anything you wantto know about hurricanes on the hurricane library

tab at the top menu. Hurricane pictures courtesy ofNOAA.

Lightning
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Weather type 7 - Lightning

Lightning is simply a discharge of electricity in theatmosphere. For a complete look at this interesting

phenomenon check the facts aboutlightningpage.Lightning photographs courtesy of JimReedjimreedphoto.comand NOAA.

Rain
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Weather type 8 - Rain

Rain is precipitation in liquid form. Liquidprecipitation can occur as mist, drizzle, or rain.

Droplet size differentiates the type that it isclassified. Mist is generally 50-500 microns in size.Drizzle is .5 to 2 millimeters in size and rain is 2

millimeters to 1 centimenter in size. Rain is formedwhen condensation of water vapor occurs condensesinto water droplets.

Precipitation in the form of rain can be created in anumber of different ways. First, two types ofprocesses cause minute droplets to form rain drops.Collision coalescence is a process where tinydroplets gradually grow in size by bumping into each

other and growing. This is mostly a warm cloudprocess where temperatures are above freezing. Thesecond process is a cold cloud process where super

cooled water droplets freeze on ice nuclei. These icenuclei grow into ice crystals. The snowflakes fall andturn into rain drops as the temperatures go above

freezing. This is the primary process that producesrainfall.

Lifting to produce rainfall occurs in a number ofdiffernt ways. 1. A low pressure system andassociated fronts 2. Mountains or higher terrain 3.

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Sleet

Weather type 9 - Sleet

Sleet is transparent frozen raindrops. Sleet or icepellets are created when snow falls into air abovefreezing and melts into rain drops. If another belowfreezing layer below the warm air is of sufficient

depth, the rain drops freeze into balls of ice or icepellets. Any significant amount of sleet is farily rare.This is due to the fact that there needs to be just

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in between the layers of cold air. There have beencases of storms producing several inches of sleet. A

mix of snow and sleet and sleet and rain is morecommon. Sleet pictures courtesy of NOAA.

Snow

Weather type 10 - Snow

Snow is the accumulation of crystal snowflakes.Snowflakes are made as water ice crystalizes. Thecrystals may form in many different shapes dictatedby the water content and temperature in the cloud


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as the snowflakes are forming. Snowflakes can takethe shape of columns, dendrites, plates, needles and

other six sided shapes. It is possible for it to snowseveral degrees above freezing if the air aloft is verycold and the above freezing layer is shallow near the

ground.

The greatest 24 hour snowfall in North America was

76" Silver Lake, Colo. April 1415, 1921. Thegreatest amount of snow for one storm in NorthAmerica was 189" at Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl, California,Feb. 1319, 1959. The one season snowfall recordfor North America was 1,140" at Mount Baker,Wash. 19981999. Snow pictures courtesy of winter

weather expert Paul Kocin.

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Weather type 11 - Sunny

Sunny weather or clear skies is defined as less than

1/8 sky cloud cover. Mostly sunny skies ischaracterized by 1/8 - 2/8 sky cloud cover. Sunnyskies many times are observed when a high

pressure area is dominating the weather pattern.High pressure signifies a region of sinking air whichtends to dry out the atmosphere resulting in lessmositure to form clouds. Deserts are locations withsunny or mostly sunny skies due to high pressuresystems influencing the weather pattern much of theyear.

Thunderstorms


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Weather type 12 - Thunderstorms

Thunderstorms are cumulonimbus clouds thatproduce thunder and lightning. Discover more

aboutthunderstormshere. Thunderstormphotographs courtesy of NOAA / NSSL and RichJohnson.

Tornado
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Weather type 13 - Tornado

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air usuallyproduced by severe thunderstorms. For much more

about tornadoes, check out ourtornadoespage.Tornado photographs courtesy of JimReed.jimreedphoto.com

Wind
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Weather type 14 - Wind

Wind is the motion of air in the atmosphere. Wind iscaused by an imbalance of heating from the sun.

The uneven heating generates an unbalancedpressure field. Air from a high pressure area flowstoward a region of low pressure to balance the

pressure field. A wind vane points to the directionfrom where the wind is blowing from and ananemometer measures how fast the wind is blowing.

The strongest surface wind gust was 253 mph onAustralia's Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in

1996. The previous record was 231 mph record setatop Mount Washington on April 12, 1934.Photographs courtesy of Rich Johnson and the

Sydney Morning Herald.


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