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Weather Alphabet |
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weather alphabet from Anemometer to Zephyr |
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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!
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Q
is for…
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| Weather
codes can be a bit of an enigma |
Q
- code
A letter code used for passing information, some meteorological,
to aircraft. e.g. QFE refers to station level pressure, QFF to mean
sea-level pressure, QNH to altimeter setting.
Quasi - stationary front
A front whose position is virtually unchanged when drawn on successive
weather charts.
Quiet spell
"Quiet" weather can be the most troublesome for a forecaster. Normally,
high pressure leads to quiet, slowly changing conditions, but they
can still be very difficult to predict. e.g. incorrectly predicting
the cloud amounts under an anticyclone can lead to a dull, dreary
day instead of a dry, sunny one or a frosty or foggy night instead
of a fine one.
The other problem with a "quiet" spell of weather is that a forecaster
can run out of ways of saying "fine and dry" during a three minute
TV or radio broadcast!
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