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Trai Annfield and Paul Mooney
Trai and Paul

Weather alphabet

If you want to know the time, ask a policeman.

If you want to know about weather, Paul Mooney and Trai Anfield are the folk to ask... so we did.

The result is a complete A to Z of weather-related stuff!

A

 
A
Find out about anemometers,
anaprop and airmasses.
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B
 
B
Find out about black ice, backing the wind, blue sky, blizzards and the Beaufort Scale.
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C
 
C
Find out about climate, clouds
and cold fronts.
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D
 
D
Find out about depressions, doldrums. deserts and drizzle.
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E
 
E
Find out about El Nino, the eye of the storm, the eye of the wind and the equinox.
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F
 
F
Find out about fog, frost, fohn winds and funnel cloud.
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G
 
G
Find out about gales, global warming, greenhouse gas and the Gulf stream.
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H
 
H
Find out about helm wind, hurricanes, 'hurricane force winds', humidity and highs.
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I
 
I
Find out about ice days, Indian summers, inversion and isobars.
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J
 
J
Find out about the jet stream
and Jacob's ladder.
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K
 
K
Find out about katabatic winds, katafronts, Knonimeters and knots.
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L
 
L
Find out about layer clouds, lenticularis,
lightning and lows.
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M
 
M
Find out about mackerel sky, maritime climate, meterology, microclimate
and mock sun.
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N
 
N
Find out about nimbostratus, nowcasting,
numerical weather prediction and the phrase
'Never trust a northerly!'
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O
 
O
Find out about observation, occluded fronts or occlusions, okta, orographic cloud and
rainfall and ozone.

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P
 
P
Find out about persistence forecasts, polar air depressions or lows, precipitation and pressure.
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Q
 
Q
Find out about Q, quasi-stationary fronts
and quiet spells.
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R
 
R
Find out about radiosonde, rain, rainbows, remote sensing, ridges and rimes.
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S
 
S
Find out about St Elmo's Fire, St Swithin's Day, scotch mist and sheet lightning.
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T
 
T
Find out about thermal lows, the Tower of the Winds, Troposphere and troughs.
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U
 
U
Find out about ultraviolet radiation and upslope fog.
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V
 
V
Find out about veering, visibility
and visible spectrum.
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W
 
W
Find out about warm fronts, warm sectors, weather, wind and wind-chill.
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X
 
X
Find out about xenon and x-rays.
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Y
 
Y
Find out about the meterological year.
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Z
 
Z
Find out about zephyr,
zonal flow and Z Time.
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