What is Air Mass?

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

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

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

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

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

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

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