What is Air Mass?

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

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

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 clouds consist of water droplets...

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...