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I hear "tropical air mass" all the time, but I rarely hear about "equatorial air masses", even though they apparently exist. What's the furthest north an equatorial air mass has traveled / affected the weather?
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From my understanding an equatorial airmass is associated with the monsoon. Not sure if tropical cyclones fall into that category. In North America I know TCs (hurricanes) have made it as far north as Newfoundland where they are classed as "extratropical"- however at this point the airmass has been modified, so probably not equatorial any longer.
This Australian paper proffers that equatorial airmasses can reach 30S on rare occasions when the monsoon trough dips low enough:
In east Asia the monsoon (originating below 20N) gets up to around 50N in summer, causing the wet summers all up the East side of China and even into parts of Russia. There are mountains in the south of China, but for some reason they dont block it like the Himalayas do the Indian one.
Cyclone Yasi was still a tropical low when it reached Victoria. I think we got something like 90mm of rain from it.
Was it "warm rain" if you can remember? Or somewhere in between warm and cool?
We got remnants of Cyclone Ogla back in Feb 2010. It was raining nonstop for a week - Kinda like what happened last April, except that was a east coast low and it was a cold rain.
Was it "warm rain" if you can remember? Or somewhere in between warm and cool?
We got remnants of Cyclone Ogla back in Feb 2010. It was raining nonstop for a week - Kinda like what happened last April, except that was a east coast low and it was a cold rain.
We got 90mm for the month, my bad. The actual remnants only produced 55mm for the airport.
The temperatures for 4th of February were 17/31, and the rains hit that night. The 5th of February's temperatures were 17/19. So I imagine it stuck around 18-19 for the entire night.
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