What is Air Mass?

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

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

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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

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