How to Use air mass in a Sentence

air mass

noun

• Dew points in the teens and 20s mean that this air mass is quite dry, too.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• The longer the fetch, the more time the cold, dry air mass has to suck up warm water along the way.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2022
• Each day the sun works on the air mass and warms it just a little bit.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
• But if the air mass could moisten up and douse some of the flames, that would help.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
• But sometimes an air mass in one part of the world stalls out.
  — Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 6 Jan. 2018
• The air mass is dry and the winds pick up to deliver a wind chill that feels like the 30s at times.
  — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
• This is still a dry air mass, with dew points in the single digits for much of the day.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• The cold snap is due to a dry air mass over the U.P., and should clear up by Saturday, Michels said.
  — Emma Keith, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
• The remnants of a cold front stalled out just to the southeast of the District with a warm and humid air mass in place.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• But when the super-wet air mass meets mountains or hills, a lot pours out.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2019
• Bomb cyclones form when a cold air mass meets a warmer one, and warm air is drawn into the storm.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• Confidence: High Tonight: A light breeze from the southwest starts to bring in a milder air mass.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• In other words, the air mass over the Bay Area might tap into bits of moisture out of the northwest.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Nov. 2022
• This warm air mass will raise the snow levels well above the Cascade passes.
  — OregonLive.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• In the atmosphere at this time of year, pressure builds up in air masses over the Great Basin, east of the state.
  — Wired, 8 Oct. 2019
• This will bring a warm, mild air mass from the south central plains to Wisconsin.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Thayer noted that the lake serves as a runway of sorts for the wind to lift an air mass up above the mountains.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
• It’s a rather raw marine air mass, with daytime highs only in the low-to-mid 50s most spots.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• Even that will soon look like a tropical air mass, though.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• Plenty of sunshine and a dry, pleasant air mass in place.
  — NBC News, 17 Jan. 2022
• Derechos tend to form in summer along the northern edge of a hot and humid air mass.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Soupy is probably the best word to describe our air mass right now.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
• How warm and wet is the air mass over Western Washington tonight?
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• This weekend, the cold air mass and the wind brought wind chills in the single digits along with more than an inch of snowfall.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• The coldest air mass so far this winter is expected at the start of next week.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
• Some 20 states could see snow from the storm thanks to an unusually cold air mass.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022
• This air mass will move east into the western Great Lakes and the upper Midwest.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
• The good news is that by Wednesday the arctic air mass will moderate.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• Another worry is that lack of ice cover leaves the lakes more prone to lake-effect snow, which requires warm open water and a cold, dry air mass.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• Ice acts as a barrier preventing the air mass from soaking up moisture.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024