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Sep 10, 2022 · Check your insurance policy. Most stipulate that if empty for more than 30 days, water should be drained and the main incoming stopcock closed. Either that or regular inspection.
- Polar Vortex
- Arctic Sea Ice
- Tropical Rainfall and Our Winter Weather
The polar vortexis a circulation of winds high up in the stratosphere, up to 30 miles (50 km) above the Earth. It is present in winter, and it is not a new phenomenon, scientists have known about it for many years. The winds regularly exceed 250 km per hour– the strength of the winds in the strongest hurricanes (known as Category 5). During winter,...
The full extent of the influence of Arctic sea ice on UK weather is still being researched. However, it is known that sea ice covercan have a direct impact on atmospheric circulation patterns. The ice reflects sunlight back into the atmosphere, thereby helping maintain lower surface temperatures in the Arctic. Over the last 35 years, Arctic sea ice...
Tropical rainfall is closely linked to the underlying ocean temperature. These temperatures change over weeks and months, much more slowly than our day-to-day weather. As a result, they can have big swings from one year to the next, due to events such as an El Niño, while remaining relatively constant within an individual winter. Warm air rising in...
The best thing to do is to drain the system entirely so that there is no water left on in the property and turn the water to the property off. If there is no water in the pipework, it can't freeze! This will mean that there is no heat in the property at all, and so it will become very cold and could create dampness if left for too long.
Why does it rain? Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets. When these droplets grow, they eventually become too heavy to stay suspended in the sky and fall to the ground as rain. Some...
The amount of heat coming from the Sun causes different patterns in the weather; the more heat the warmer it is, the less heat the cooler it is, but there are also changes in wind, cloud and...
Storms arise if the air mass and the region it moves over have different characteristics. For example, when a colder air mass moves over warmer ground, the bottom layer of air is heated. That air rises, forming clouds, rain, and sometimes thunderstorms. How would a moving air mass form an inversion?
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Some storms produce only snow, while others produce only rain. Others can produce all precipitation types. Determining exactly where the lines between snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain will occur can be one of the toughest forecasts a meteorologist has to make.
