{"id":118,"date":"2023-05-18T21:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2023-05-18T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:51:10","slug":"weather-glossary-v","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Weather Glossary \u2013 V"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"118\" class=\"elementor elementor-118\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-03af645 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"03af645\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fa57865\" data-id=\"fa57865\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-929bc5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"929bc5e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">V<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VEERING<b>\u00a0<\/b>WINDS<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; A clockwise change in wind direction. Veering winds with height are indicative of warm air advection (WAA).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VERY<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>WINDY<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VIRGA<\/strong>&#8211; Precipitation falling from the base of a cloud and evaporating before it reaches the ground.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VISIBILITY<\/strong>&#8211; The horizontal distance an observer can see and identify a prominent object.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VORTICITY-<\/strong>\u00a0A measure of the amount of &#8220;spin&#8221; (rotation) and &#8220;shear&#8221; in the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V VEERING\u00a0WINDS\u00a0&#8211; A clockwise change in wind direction. Veering winds with height are indicative of warm air advection (WAA). VERY\u00a0WINDY\u00a0&#8211; Sustained winds of 30 to 40&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/269"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}