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Old 25th Sep 2007, 23:11
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Cloud base is 5600

(OAT-Dpt) x 400

(21-7) x 400

14 x 400 = 5600

Why?

Air cools at the Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate until saturated at it Due Piont.
OAT is 21
-3degC per 1000 '
Reaches DP of 7 deg at 5600' and condensed out.

It then cools at the Saturated LR of 1.5 / 1000' and the tops are another story altogether, subject to inversions etc...
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