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Old 9th June 2005 | 23:40
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From: Sarfend-on-Sea
OAT will decrease.

The wind that high is determined more by the temperature gradient than the surface pressure gradient - this is the thermal wind component. You are moving, as fullrich says, from high to low pressure, but aloft low pressure is largely caused by a column of air with low temperature. Constant pressure altitude so fullrich is wrong there; altitude is not affecting temperature, as this is related to pressure not true altitude.

That, at least, is my reading of it. Any Met instructors about?

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