Lapse Rate in the Temperature with Altitude and the Inversion Phenomenon.

Lapse Rate in the Temperature with Altitude and the Inversion Phenomenon.

Something that always got my attention is how the temperature always drops when you go higher up in the mountain. This is called the “lapse rate”. I always repeated like a parrot that temperature drops 1° C when the altitude increases by 100 m. And how come this sometimes is not true with the inversion phenomenon? It is not always the case, that temperature decreases by 1° C when the altitude increases by 100 meters but is not that off the reali…