air mass
noun
: a body of air extending hundreds or thousands of miles horizontally and sometimes as high as the stratosphere and maintaining as it travels nearly uniform conditions of temperature and humidity at any given level
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The cold air mass is shallow, with an inversion height around 7000' msl.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Garcia said the instability has been caused as the warmer air mass moves across the region trailed over the ocean by a colder one moving in to replace it.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
In the United States this past week, the bitter arctic air mass plunged much of the country into dangerously cold conditions, delivering record-breaking low temperatures not experienced in decades, and life-threatening wind chills.
—Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The bitterly cold air mass is affecting the western, central and eastern United States this week, causing temperatures to plunge far below normal for January.
—Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Garcia said the instability has been caused as the warmer air mass moves across the region trailed over the ocean by a colder one moving in to replace it.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
In the United States this past week, the bitter arctic air mass plunged much of the country into dangerously cold conditions, delivering record-breaking low temperatures not experienced in decades, and life-threatening wind chills.
—Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The bitterly cold air mass is affecting the western, central and eastern United States this week, causing temperatures to plunge far below normal for January.
—Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Air mass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20mass. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.
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