Meteorology Lesson #237

[quasigeostrophy]

I'm going to have to become much less anal about my own grammar and, particularly, spelling. Reading today's Forecast Discussion from the local NWS office:

...THESE SEPARATE FEATURES MERGE TOMORROW MORNING AND DROP A LARGE SCALE TROF OVER THE STATE. COLD ADVECTION BEGINS TONIGHT IN THE WAKE OF THIS TROF...

I hesitated a moment before realizing what a TROF was, that it wasn't some acryonym. :-) I've seen other examples in official notices like this, but TROF for trough was particularly amusing. It reminds me that at one time (around 11th grade), I was really pushing for the Unifon alphabet.

Comments

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

If you look around a little, I think you'll find TROF is an accepted meteorological term. It shows up all over the place, on charts and in discussions.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given some of the other common abbreviations I've seen in other NOAA/NWS releases.