Talk:Low-pressure area

Couldn't this be combined into cyclone? –radiojon 18:33, 2004 Jul 14 (UTC)

• Most emphatically, NO. The other way around, perhaps, but weather announcers do not refer to cyclones, they refer to LOWS. This article should be titled so as to be as accessible to as many people as possible. The lingua franca must rule. Denni☯ 00:55, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)

• I have to agree. The term 'cyclone', by itself, implies a synoptic-scale system. The term 'low' may be used with macro/meso/micro scale features. Roodog2k 18:32, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Move

I strongly suggest this page be moved to low pressure area. My justification is that I think it's generally nicer to have a title not including a parenthesized subject, because it might actually be linked "accidentally". I'll take care of this when I get home if there is no dissent. Deco 20:18, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And it was so. Deco 07:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

adiabatic cooling

Does this make any sense? If so, could it be explained please? Doesn't adiabatic mean 'without temperature change'? Or does it mean without heat transfer? From adiabatic I thought it was the former.

• No heat transfer occurs. This short page explains the process pretty clearly: http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter7/adiab_cool.html — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-31 00:24

Little Bit Confused

The main article says low pressure areas are filled in by neighboring high pressure areas, and the coriolis effect makes it turn into a spiral, as is consistent with observation, I was wondering if it is right that the higher pressure flows faster at a lower elevation or a higher elevation? Generally speaking, I mean. Can someone fix the main article so that it states which parts of the low pressure area are filled in first? I was guessing that it is the atmosphere in the lowest elevations above sea level that have the greatest amount of force to them, and that is where the "filling in" can be predicted first.