What is Air Mass?

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.