Originally Posted by MightyGem
Hmmm...how long has a tephigram been called a skew-t?
I think a tepigram and a skew-t are not quite the same thing, though they serve the same purpose (analagous to the difference between a Mercator and Lambert chart).
I found a good blank tephigram on the net if anybody wants to plot the soundings.
http://maths.ucd.ie/met/msc/PhysMet/blank_tephigram.pdf
This tephigram shows the dry adiabats as paralell straight lines, whereas the SALR is clearly temperature dependant (not fixed 1.5 C/1000ft as some texts imply) and approaches the DALR at high altitudes.