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shower
- Definição1
- Precipitation from a cumuliform cloud. Showers are characterized by the suddenness of beginning and ending, by the rapid change of intensity, and usually by the rapid change in the appearance of the sky. Showery precipitation may be in the form of rain, ice pallets, or snow.
- Fonte1
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 2nd ed. Renton: ASA, 1991.
- Definição2
- A descriptor, SH, used to qualify precipitation characterized by the suddenness with which they start and stop, by the rapid changes of intensity, and usually by rapid changes in the appearance of the sky.
- Fonte2
- UNITED STATES. National Weather Service. National weather service glossary. [20-?]. In: ______. [Homepage]. [Silver Spring, MD, 20-?]. Disponível em: < https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php >. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2019.
- Fonte3
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. Manual on codes: international codes. Volume I.1: annex II to the WMO technical regulations. Parte A: annex II to the WMO technical regulations. Geneva, 2011. (WMO, n.306).
- Nota Adicional1
- Acronym in English: HVY RA.
- Nota Adicional2
- The term “showery”, as an adjective of “shower”, is more broadely used: SHGR 'Showery precipitation of hail' SHGRRA 'Showery precipitation of hail and rain' SSHRAGSSN 'Showery precipitation of rain, snow pellets/small hail and snow' HGRRASN 'Showery precipitation of hail, rain and snow' SHUP 'Unidentified showery precipitation'
- Contexto
- Showers are produced by convective clouds. They are characterized by their abrupt beginning and end and by the generally rapid and sometimes great variations in the intensity of the precipitation. Drops and solid particles falling in a shower are generally larger than those falling in non-showery precipitation. Between showers openings may be observed unless stratiform clouds fill the intervals between the cumuliform clouds.
- Subárea
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Related Term
- precipitation
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Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve which is one of several reserves in the lower lower Adelaide River catchment in the Northern Territory. A thunderstorm dumps heavy rain over Fogg Dam during the Build-Up which is the lead-up to the Wet Season.
