Talk:Cold drop

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Greetings, Is "cold drop" really the term used in English or is it simply the translation from Spanish. I've been told by someone who tends to know such things that the correct English term is "cut-off low". Can someone please confirm. Likewise, what would be the difference between this and what I know of as a cloudburst? Thanx. --Technopat 12:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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This article is plagued with errors:

  • It is not polar air the reason of "cold drop". The actual reason is that, in october, Mediterranean sea waters are much warmer than continent is. Remember that water does not heat up as quickly as land areas, but also lasts much more time in cooling down. So, different temperatures between land and water along the northern hemisphere coasts, reach its peak in autumn in general and in october in particular, therefore, it is the time with maximum inestability within the atmosphere. It would be good to read the article on the spanish WP about diathermancy (es:diatermancia).
  • The jet stream has nothing to do with this phenomenon. Maybe is the opposite. --Fev (talk) 22:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
  • The article says: This phenomenon usually lasts a very short time, as it exhausts its water reserves without receiving a new supply. But the duration of a storm depends on the size of the storm: the bigger the storm (or cloud in a satellite image) the longer it lasts.
  • The clouds in a "gota fría" phenomenon are not formed in the Atlantic Ocean. This clouds are formed in the Mediterranean Sea with the ascending warm air that goes backwards (westward) at very high altitude.
  • The article says: This way a great mass of cold air rotates and floats like a drop over a warm area. It is just the opposite: Cold and dry air (it dropped down its humidity from the Atlantic and cooled down going over the peninsula) coming from west to east (westerly winds) causes warm moist air in the Mediterranean to ascend and turn backwards (just as we can see the anvil's head in a cumulonimbus) and storm lasts until energy from water dissipates. --Fev (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)