Labels:book | daily | mountain | newspaper | plant | reckoner | sea | sky OCR: Weather mountains The higher you are in the mountains, the lesser atmosphere pressure, the faster winds, and the colder air you find Air pressure on the summit of Everest drops down to 300 mbar the speed of the wind rises to 320 km/h, and the temperature about -70C Even if you take lower mountains, the winds encountered there are still much stronger than those in valleys. Many mountain peaks are always covered with snow and ice The altitude at which the eternal snow first encountered called the snow line The mountains form natural barrier for winds and clouds, the air goes up and down passing above the mountain peaks When the airflows rise from the windward slope of a mountain the low mountain peaks become covered with fog and rain. CLOUDS AND SNOW Many meteorological station are located T ...
