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Disequilibrium: The Connection Between Weather and Air Masses

Science Scope—September 2018

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s column helps explain how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather at a fixed location to change over time as well as how sudden changes in weather can result when different air masses collide. This particular lesson focuses on wind and touches on tornadoes.

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