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Good articleWake low has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that wake lows and their associated heat bursts can cause high winds as well as large temperature spikes, even overnight?

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A low pressure area usually has rising air, with the opposite true for high pressure areas. So it seems odd that a wake low should be associated with descending air. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.166.12 (talk) 21:47, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the descending air is dry/warm, it is possible. This kind of situation is common within lee troughs downwind of mountain ranges. Thegreatdr (talk) 21:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the air was warm wouldn't it start to rise behind the wake low? Plus, isn't there descending air at the meso-high? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.171.129.120 (talk) 18:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes to both...the rising warm air causes the wake low. Air does descend within the cool air associated with the mesohigh. Thegreatdr (talk) 18:53, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]