What is Air Mass?

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...