What clouds and weather may result from an humid and instable air mass, that is pushed against a chain of mountains by the predominant wind and forced to rise?

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Question Quiz BPL Hot Air - Balloon Pilot License - Meteorology

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Embedded CB with thunderstorms and showers of hail and/or rain

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Overcast low stratus (high fog) with no precipitation.

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Smooth, unstructured NS cloud with light drizzle or snow (during winter).

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Thin Altostratus and Cirrostratus clouds with light and steady precipitation.

BPL Hot Air: What clouds and weather may result from an humid and instable air mass, that is pushed against a chain of mountains by the predominant wind and forced to rise? Id: 198