What is Air Mass?

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

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

A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...

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

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...