Dictionary definition: Arctic air masses

Article: ARCTIC AIR MASSES BORN IN CANADA AND ALASKA ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 3, 1996 ;     434 words ... ... continues across Wisconsin, arctic air masses will be getting stronger in ... cold air is very dense, these arctic air masses tend to slide down to the northern ... the faster the wind. With arctic air masses, this combination of wind and ...

Article: Arctic air brings sunny skies and some lake-effect ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 21, 2000 ;     453 words ... ... coldest time of the year, so arctic air masses are no surprise. But temperatures ... area? This is very common with arctic air masses, for two reasons. The first ... why dew points are very low with arctic air. The second is related to downward ...

Article: ARCTIC AIR COULD DETERMINE COURSE OF WINTER
Roanoke Times & World News;  December 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... happened last year, when Arctic air poured south in the second ... and ice. But if the Arctic air doesn't come down the ... December, but those air masses moved in and out rather ... models are showing the Arctic air expanding across the ...

Article: GET READY FOR 1ST BOUT WITH ARCTIC AIR
Roanoke Times & World News;  October 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... time this fall season, a mass of Arctic air is being dislodged southward ... of September with the arrival of air masses from the northern Pacific and Canada ... Arctic Circle. Early-season Arctic air masses have a hard time hanging on, and ...

Article: Arctic air may give Packers chilly game-time ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 4, 1998 ;     431 words ... ... not allow the main core of the arctic air to push very far south across the ... mixture of precipitation. When cold air masses are shallow, milder air to the ... little evidence that the bitter cold arctic air across Canada with temperatures ...

Dictionary definition: Arctic air
A Dictionary of Weather;      281 words ...Arctic air (A) An air mass that originates over the Arctic Ocean. During winter ... type (cA), but differs only slightly from the continental polar (cP) air masses that develop over Siberia and northern Canada. (It is generally colder ...

Article: IS RUSSIA'S ARCTIC AIR HEADED OUR WAY?
Roanoke Times & World News;  January 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the land that we don't fully understand, uneven heating of the sea that we understand even less, and all of those mixed air masses spun around a globe tilted at a 23-degree angle. It's typical that there are three or four large blobs of cold air bobbing ...