A dry lunch is meteorological slang for a synoptic scale or mesoscale process. A dry lunch at the surface results in a dry line bulge. A dry punch aloft above an area of moist air at low levels often increases the potential for severe weather.
Famous quotes containing the words dry and/or punch:
“What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)