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Offline Coach B

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Temp inversion
« on: October 20, 2009, 07:17:08 AM »
Pretty good inversion layer this morning.  When I left my house on the hill a little after 6 the temp was 44.7 with obviously no frost.  On my way through Lewisburg I noticed a pretty solid frost in most spots.  Checked the 6AM temp for Lewisburg and it was 32.  That's over 12 degrees difference!
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Offline Curt

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Re: Temp inversion
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 09:16:28 AM »
Amazing how on radiational cooling nights, valley areas are spared from an increase in winds and small WAA. It also proves one of the only things I remember from physics, cool air sinks while warm air rises.

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Re: Temp inversion
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2009, 02:46:50 PM »
The clear nighttime temperature in Nashville almost always ranges by 5-10º due to a combination of hilly topography and the heat island effect. Of the 3 big cities, I'd say Nashville is the hardest to forecast low temps because of the variability.
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