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Weather Words: Surface Temperature

Surface temperature is the temperature on the ground level, which often determines when roads freeze, helping explain why icy ...
Have you ever wondered what goes in to creating a temperature outlook map? First Alert Meteorologist Jonathan Cranford has a ...
In my article “What Am I Looking At?” (August 2022), I reflected on the use of grayscale imagery with white-hot polarity (white–hot, black–cold, everything else–shades of gray) while using your ...
CLEVELAND — A flash freeze is a rapid and sometimes dangerous drop in temperature that causes wet surfaces to freeze almost instantly. A flash freeze is typically associated with dramatic shifts in ...
Heat index is the temperature that it feels like to the human body and is also referred to as the feels-like temperature or the apparent temperature. Oftentimes, it will feel much hotter than what the ...
A recent Science Session from the EREF makes clear, elevated temperatures and landfill fires are different issues, but often ...
DENVER (KDVR) — It’s mid-February and freezing in Denver, but the thermometer doesn’t appear to show how cold it actually feels. Temperatures in Denver have been hitting the single digits during a mid ...
Conversely, another common winter precipitation type is rain. Rain reaches the ground when temperatures in the lower ...