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1. Cloud Streets
Rows of cumulus or cumulus-type clouds aligned parallel to the low-level flow. Cloud streets sometimes can be seen from the ground, but are seen best on satellite photographs.

2. Left Mover
A thunderstorm which moves to the left relative to the steering winds, and to other nearby thunderstorms; often the northern part of a splitting storm.

Related Term : Right Mover

3. Ridge
An elongated area of relatively high atmospheric pressure; the opposite of trough.

4. Penetrating Top


5. Climatology
(1) The description and scientific study of climate. (2) A quantitative description of climate showing the characteristic values of climate variables over a region.

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