Sentences with phrase «cold air near»

A baseboard heater typically uses the convection process to suck in the cold air near the floor, heat up the air, and release the warm air so it can rise up and keep the room warm.

At a given level in the atmosphere, any low that is generally characterized by colder air near its center than around its periphery; the opposite of a warm low.

Clouds and often precipitation occur on the poleward sides of both warm and stationary fronts and whenever tropical air reaching the latitude of the polar front is forced upward over the colder air near the surface.

The principle of the system is to move heavy cold air to prevent stratification, and allow the warmer inversion layer air to replace the colder air near the ground.

Not exact matches

F. cold) it doesn't «feel» that cold due to near zero moisture in the air to cool your epidermis... (I like using that word: «Epidermis») It's a cool word, and it makes me sound smurter to.

At night, when the air near the ground may be colder than that above, it can have a warming effect.

An embankment near the base of a slope will prevent the cold air sinking to the valley bottom, leaving it hanging around the lower slopes of the vineyards.

A low - altitude flow of warm, moist air from an ocean area combined with a flow of cold, dry polar air high up creates maximum instability, which means that parcels of air heated near the surface rise rapidly, creating powerful updrafts.

On Sunday morning, AIRS discovered that Harvey's coldest clouds — those capable of dropping the heaviest rainfall — were near the tropical storm's center and east - of - center, which corresponded to areas extending from southeastern Texas into southeastern Louisiana.

As a hurricane, Sandy had a warm core, meaning that temperatures near the storm's center were warmer than the surrounding air, but colder air eventually worked its way into the center of the storm.

Some 55,000 feet above sea level during the final years of the Cold War, U.S. Air Force pilot Glenn Whicker's engine «flamed out» on the U-2 spy plane he'd been flying near the North Korean border and he knew he was in trouble.

A cold air induction system and dual exhaust give the 3.7 its free - breathing style with a 7,000 rpm redline and near - instantaneous response to throttle inputs.

If a cage is located near an open window or air conditioner, the cage can get too drafty which can result in your hamster catching a cold.

However, it is best not to place the cage near any vents where cold or hot air will blow right onto the bird.

This means that as the dense cold air flows towards the low spot and pools there the influence of the large scale wind decreases to zero in a shallow layer near the surface.

(1) Most of the warming would actually occur near the surface in areas with shallow cold dry air masses, such as in Siberia and northern Canada where it would not have a large effect.

Peter: I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing In regards to a: I am not sure that it would always be «localized near to the coast».

Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles.»

I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing.

A study in contrasts: Warming near Alaska and the Pacific Ocean are «ingredients» to a weather pattern where cold air from the Arctic plunges deep into North America.

Air is warmer near the ground and gets colder higher up.

Cold air sinks near the poles and moves back towards the equator.

«In winter, the freezing Arctic air is normally «locked» by strong circumpolar winds several tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere, known as the stratospheric polar vortex, so that the cold air is confined near the pole,» said study co-author Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts Research in Germany, in a press release.

Cold - cloud rain occasionally will refreeze if a layer of subfreezing air exists near Earth's surface.

In other words, UHI * is the value of the urban - heat - island effect if wind were not reducing it by replacing warmer air with colder; and NSTI * is the effect of the near - surface temperature inversion if the wind were not mixing up the air near the ground with the air a little higher up.

The regional atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic normally features a high over the Azores and a low near Greenland and Iceland — the westerlies are intense but the cold air from Canada is warmed before reaching Europe.

Further, these areas of open water do not occur near the leading edge of the ice in warm water, they only occur near land in previously frozen areas where air and water are cold enough to re-freeze the open water.

Tornadoes and other severe thunderstorms occur when warm, humid air near the ground and cold air aloft combine with winds that change speed and direction with height.

Hurricanes (Fig. 7) and other tropical cyclones can be thought of as heat engines that take energy in by evaporating warm ocean water, and eject it at a colder temperature near the tropopause after air rises and water condenses in the eyewall [14].

Without the land masses near it to send warming air, the greatest forcing it will see for a very long time will be increasingly cold temperatures.

There is also an increased upwelling of deep cold ocean waters and more intense uprising of surface air near South America, resulting in increasing numbers of drought occurrences, although fishermen reap benefits from the more nutrient - filled eastern Pacific waters.

The layers are warmest nearest your body and get coldest nearest the outside air.

My memory of basic meteorology is that thunderstorms require hot and cold air masses to form, which I suppose would cause hail to not be expected very near the eye of a hurricane even if the hurricane was pushing into a cold air mass.

... bodies situated on or near to the surface of the earth become, under certain circumstances, colder than the neighbouring air, by radiating more heat to the heavens than they receive in every way...

The air is getting colder, the holidays are near.

I call imagine smelling the fresh cold air, too, (sigh) even though I currently live in Gilbert, AZ (near Phoenix).