Weather Tidbits: Air Quality Index Scale
The air quality index scale is explored in this Weather Tidbits. The air quality index provides daily air pollution concentrations; which was developed by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The…
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Weather Tidbits: UV Index Scale
This Weather Tidbits dives into the UV Index Scale and how to protect yourself from a sunburn while using the scale. The UV index scale represents the daily strength of sunburn-protecting…
Weather Tidbits: Urban Heat Island Effect
This Weather Tidbits describes what is the urban heat island effect. The urban heat island effect is explained through heat emitted from cars, buildings & factories which will bump…
Weather Tidbits: Maritime Tropical Air Mass
The maritime tropical air mass is explored in this Weather Tidbits. The maritime tropical air mass or mT is a warm, moist and unstable air mass. The air mass is…
Weather Tidbits: Maritime Polar Air Mass
This Weather Tidbits discusses the maritime polar air mass. The maritime polar air mass or mP is a cool, moist & unstable air mass. It is called Pacific or Atlantic…
Weather Tidbits: Continental Tropical Air Mass
It's gets very hot in this Weather Tidbits with the continental tropical air mass. The continental tropical airmass or cT is a hot, dry, stable aloft but unstable surface air…
Weather Tidbits: Continental Polar Air Mass
The continental polar air mass is checked out in this Weather Tidbits. A continental polar airmass or cP is a cold, dry, stable air; that originates around 60° N. It's…
Weather Tidbits: Continental Arctic Air Mass
This Weather Tidbits dives into the coldest air mass in North America with the continental Arctic air mass. The continental Arctic air mass or cA is an air mass that…
Weather Tidbits: Air Mass Classification
This Weather Tidbits deals with what is an air mass and how they are classified. An air mass is a large body of air that has similar horizontal temperature & moisture characteristics.…
Weather Tidbits: Snow Year
This Weather Tidbits explains why snowfall is measured annually from summer to summer instead of a calendar year. The meteorological snow year begins on July 1st & ends on June 30st. The…
Weather Tidbits: Sundog Formation
This Weather Tidbits explores how sundogs are formed. They occur when sunlight is refracted by hexagonal (6 sided) shaped ice crystals from a cirrus or cirrostratus clouds; where the sunlight is…
Weather Tidbits: Rainbow Ingredients
This Weather Tidbits explains the four ingredients of how a rainbow forms. First, the viewer must be between the sun and the rain; followed by it must be within a few…
Weather Tidbits: Winter Storm Severity Index
This Weather Tidbits explores the Winter Storm Severity Index that is used by the National Weather Service. The WSSI is a tool that forecasts the impacts of winter storms; ranging…
Weather Tidbits: Warning Signs of Hypothermia
This Weather Tidbits explores the warning signs of hypothermia. Hypothermia is when the rapid loss of body heat loses heat faster than it can produce; that drops to a temperature…
Weather Tidbits: Wind Chill & Our Bodies
This Weather Tidbits explains how the wind chill affects our bodies. The 1st thing to understand is that our bodies lose heat through convection. When the outside temperature is…
Weather Tidbits: New Year Climatology
This Weather Tidbits dives into the climatology for New Year's Day. Salisbury's average high is 47° with an average low of 29°. The highest maximum temperature or record high of 68°…
Weather Tidbits: Frost Quakes
This Weather Tidbits answers what is a frost quake? Frost quakes are seismic events but triggered by the weather. These happen temperatures rapidly fall, typically from near freezing to subzero within 48…
