Objective Comments and Analysis - All Science, No Politics
Primary Author Richard James
2010-2013 Author Rick Thoman
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Normalcy Departs
Steep inversions are the rule this time of year in Interior Alaska, but this is not one of those times. The afternoon sounding reveals a more than 20C inversion, but it's quite gradual by Interior standards. Temperatures at typical residential hillside elevations are back down to around -30F this evening; it's only above about 2000' MSL that temperatures are near -10F.
One interesting feature of this sounding is in the lowest 100 meters, where the temperature is constant (jargon=isothermal). This is typical in ice fog.
Labels:
Inversions,
Winter
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