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Upper air station reports

The value highlighted in yellow located in the upper left corner (in the diagram above) is the temperature in degrees Celsius. In this example, the reported temperature is -14 degrees.

Temperature is defined as a measure of the average kinetic energy (or speed) of the molecules in the air.


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