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What does updraft mean?

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Noun
  1. an upward current of air, especially a strong one
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The rear part of the storm is where tornadoes are likely to spawn as the downdraft in the flanking line meets the rotating updraft.
Various different temperatures and wind interactions at different altitudes can cause a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone.
A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite.
There was no one to overhear them save a speckled chicken hawk circling lazily on the updraft from the mountain.
The best view of a mesocyclone is normally from a location east of the updraft, looking west.
When I related to them how, on one jump, I was caught in a thermal updraft and was actually going up instead of down, they laughed in disbelief.

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