Daily Archives: November 16, 2015

What forces a mid-latitude cyclone to develop?

Our storm on Wednesday night and Thursday of last week was the first strong storm of the autumn/winter season. As you found yourself caught in the strong winds, you may well have wondered how do storms like this one come to be.

That has been the central motivating question in meteorological science for most of the past 100 years. Continue reading

Category: Meteorology, Seasons

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