What is Anticyclone?

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

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

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

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