what are the different weather disturbances?

Question

what are the different weather disturbances?

Answer 1

The list can go on and on, but as the previous poster mentioned, they are virtually all associated with low pressure areas at some level (surface &/or aloft).



A few examples are:



Ordinary (synoptic scale) Lows

Nor'easters

Alberta clippers

Colorado Lows

Inverted trofs

Inland runners (in from the Atlantic coast)

Coastal Lows

Hurricanes

Tropical cyclones

Mesoscale convective systems

Shortwave trofs (aloft)



Some meteorologists take great pride in naming them or knowing the names - which is not really the important thing, though it can help a person understand them and thus predict them better.

Answer 2

Normally all the weather disturbances are associated with low pressure systems. High pressure normally brings clear weather (and can make it really warm in the day, then really cold at night, because normally with strong high pressure clouds do not form, or merely exist in cirrus form).

Answer 3

rain,hurricane,snow,hail