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K-index (meteorology) Lightning. The K-Index or George's Index is a measure of thunderstorm potential in meteorology. According to the National Weather Service, the index harnesses measurements such as "vertical temperature lapse rate, moisture content of the lower atmosphere, and the vertical extent of the moist layer." [1]
WXP, the Weather Processor, is a weather data manipulation and visualization package developed at Purdue University in the 1980s. In 1989, WXP was adopted by Unidata as the Unix-based weather analysis tool and was distributed to over 40 universities. WXP became a showcase venture for Unidata which at the time was promoting many of the new standards of software development and user interaction ...
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions. Though first attempted in the 1920s, it was not until the advent of computer simulation in the 1950s that numerical weather predictions produced realistic results. A number of global and regional forecast models are run in different countries ...
DuPage County (/ duːˈpeɪdʒ / doo-PAYJ) is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 932,877, making it Illinois' second-most populous county. Its county seat is Wheaton. [ 2 ]
STREAMWOOD, Ill. - A Streamwood man was arrested this week after allegedly sexually abusing a one-year-old girl. Cruz Estanislao, 24, faces four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a ...
Surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations. [ 1]
College of DuPage is a public community college with its main campus in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. [3] The college also owns and operates satellite campuses in Addison, Carol Stream, Naperville and Westmont. [4][5] With more than 20,000 students, the College of DuPage is the second largest provider of undergraduate education in Illinois, after ...
Abrams is co-inventor of the AccuWeather exclusive RealFeel Temperature, which some have criticized for not having any scientific basis. [6] He is a co-author of Meteorology, published by McGraw-Hill as a college text, [7] and Explorations in Meteorology[8] In late 2010, he wrote the foreword to eXtreme New England Weather written by Josh Judge, [9] a book that profiles events surrounding the ...