Determining Stability » Potential Instability Factors that Influence Weather Effects
Factors that Influence Weather Effects
The kind of weather that actually occurs depends on a variety of factors, such as the following:
- The amount of lifting beyond that which is just sufficient to start condensation
- The steepness of the wet-bulb temperature lapse rate
- The degree of stability of the adjacent layers
- The speed and spatial uniformity of the lifting
For many practical purposes there may be little difference in the clouds and weather that result from lifting a shallow potentially stable layer as compared to those from lifting a shallow potentially unstable layer. Therefore, there may be instances of potential instability in which the "instability" aspect is of trivial significance.