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Originally Posted by wodin
Cold (for here).
Funny thing is, I live at 500 feet elevation and my car thermometer said it was 60 degrees, when I drove down to near sea level it was 58, then I drove up another hill to work (900 feet) and the temperature was back up to 60. How's that work? Colder at lower elevations than at higher ones?
Strange!
Edit: 191-mph wind gust, 60 foot waves, snow at the lowest elevation ever recorded. |
It's called an inversion
Found a definition at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/climate...Inversions.php
From the first paragraph of the above site:
What are temperature inversions? On most days, the temperature of air in the atmosphere is cooler the higher up in altitude you go. This is because most of the suns energy is converted to sensible heat at the ground, which in turn warms the air at the surface. The warm air rises in the atmosphere, where it expands and cools. Sometimes, however, the temperature of air actually increases with height. The situation of having warm air on top of cooler air is referred to as a temperature inversion, because the temperature profile of the atmosphere is "inverted" from its usual state.